BACKGROUND In severe coronary artery disease, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery is indicated to re-establish an adequate blood supply to the ischemic myocardium. Effectiveness of CABG surgery for symptom relief and mortality decrease should therefore depend on bypass graft patency. As bypass using a left internal mammary artery (LIMA)-to-left anterior descending coronary artery (LA...

Secondary coronary revascularizations can be required due to the progression of artery lesions and degeneration bypass grafts in long term after initial graft (CABG) surgery. It is therefore necessary clarify clinical characteristics these patients how improve their prognosis. Optimal medical treatments, including medications, smoking cessation, cardiac rehabilitation, are essential baseline ma...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate cognitive function, as measured by serial neuropsychological testing, and cerebral perfusion, as measured by brain SPECT scanning in patients with coronary artery diseases (CAD) following off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Besides, the relationship between cerebral blood flow, cognitive functions, surgery parameters, and ca...

To the Editor: A 46‐year‐old male, having a history of coronary artery disease, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), was admitted to our clinic with sustained chest pain. He had a left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending coronary artery, saphenous vein graft (SVG) to diagonal branch, and SVG to obtuse marginal artery. Up to 7 years after CABG, patient had no comp...

Background: Today, coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in many patients is commonly used to treat complications of the disease. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of cardiac rehabilitation on hemodynamic parameters in patients undergoing CABG. Methods: : In this clinical trial which was conducted in Rajaee Hospital of Tehran University of Medical Sciences 100 patients after co...

background  : on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery impairs gas exchange in the early postoperative period. the main object on this study was evaluation of changes in arterial blood gas values in patients underwent on pump cabg surgery receiving different dose of intravenous nitroglycerin (ntg). methods : sixty-seven consecutive patients undergoing elective on-pump cabg randomly e...