BACKGROUND Saphenous vein grafts (SVG) and internal mammary artery (IMA) grafts have been used for coronary artery bypass grafting. In adult patients with bypass grafting for atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, IMA grafts have been reported to have long-term patency; however, results are conflicting on whether the graft is sufficient to meet increased myocardial oxygen demand during exerci...

introduction: heart failure is a major hazard for public health. despite recent advance in medical therapy, there is not enough information on the outcome of off-pump coronary artery bypass (opcab) and medical therapy on the patients with severe ventricular dysfunction and triple-vessel (cad). this study aimed to compare treatment outcomes and mortality rate in patients undergoing off-pump coro...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this article is to make an evaluation on the clinical features of patients with Kawasaki disease who require a cardiac surgical procedure including coronary artery bypass grafting, coronary arterial aneurysmorrhaphy or heart transplantation. METHODS English literature of Kawasaki disease for cardiac surgery (1990-2011) was retrieved in the Pubmed database. The clinical f...

BACKGROUND We sought to evaluate the effects of on-pump beating-heart versus conventional coronary artery bypass grafting techniques requiring cardioplegic arrest in patients with coronary artery disease with left ventricular dysfunction. METHODS We report the early outcomes associated with survival, morbidity and improvement of left ventricular function in patients with low ejection fraction...

Patients with multivessel coronary artery disease are more likely to have extensive atherosclerosis that involves other major arteries. Critical subclavian artery (SCA) stenosis can result in coronary subclavian steal syndrome that may present as recurrent ischemia and even myocardial infarction in patients with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). In patients with concomitant severe native cor...

STUDY OBJECTIVES This study was designed to evaluate whether the insertion (I)/deletion (D) polymorphism of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene is associated with mortality and cardiac morbidity after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). METHODS AND RESULTS The ACE I/D genotype was determined in 249 consecutive patients who underwent CABG. Follow-up information (after 2 yea...

Impella 2.5 is a temporary left ventricular assist device that is being increasingly used in high risk Percutaneous Coronary intervention (PCI). It reduces the cardiac workload and provides assistance to myocardium and vital organs in states of severe left ventricular dysfunction and cardiogenic shock. We report the first case of successful percutaneous coronary stenting performed in a high ris...