OBJECTIVES Elevated asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease. A prognostic value of ADMA following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is unknown. The aim of the current study was to assess the effect of CABG on ADMA and oxidative stress and determine their associations with postoperative complications. METHODS In 158 consecutive pa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate free interleukin-18 (fIL-18) levels, and variation within the IL-18 system genes, in heart surgery patients, and healthy men. METHODS AND RESULTS fIL-18 was calculated from IL-18 and IL-18 binding protein (BP) levels, in 421 healthy men and 196 post-coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients. After surgery, fIL-18 peaked at 6 hours (from 117 to 331 pg/mL) but fell t...

New-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is associated with poorer long-term survival and increased morbidity. Because greater age is associated with higher risk of new-onset postCABG AF, the trend toward increasing age and risk profiles in the population of patients undergoing CABG makes understanding this common complication of cardiac surgery a hig...

BACKGROUND Syncope is a well-known risk factor for adverse cardiovascular event in patients with coronary artery disease, especially those with previous myocardial infarction (MI) or left ventricular dysfunction. The aim of this study was to assess electrophysiologic findings and results of head-up tilt test (HUTT) in patients with syncope and without orthostatic changes in blood pressure durin...

quality of life (qol) is a vast multidimensional concept related to health and health care. as qol decreases after health diseases, the aim of most medical health care systems and cardiac rehabilitation centers are to enhance qol of heart disease patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of continuous and interval exercise training on quality of life of heart patients after...

conclusions cabg may be the superior form of treatment for long-term outcomes in terms of the relief of chest pain, improvement of the functional class, reduced need for re-admission, and later death for octogenarians. however, short-term morbidity may be higher among the cabg group, but the mortality rate after 30 days is quite similar. background appropriate treatment methods lead to a reduce...

BACKGROUND Fibrinogen is the main biomarker for bleeding. To prevent excessive postoperative bleeding, it would be useful to identify high-risk patients before coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). OBJECTIVES In order to predicating bleeding after CABG, we sought to determine whether preoperative fibrinogen concentration was associated with the amount of bleeding following CABG. PATIENTS ...