coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. in this study, we compared two surgical methods of left internal mammary artery (lima) anastomosis on left anterior descending (lad) artery in patients with severe diffuse lesions. a total of 40 patients were included in our study and randomly assigned into two groups. in group a, after a long arteriotomy on lad, the posterior sur...

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. In this study, we compared two surgical methods of left internal mammary artery (LIMA) anastomosis on left anterior descending (LAD) artery in patients with severe diffuse lesions. A total of 40 patients were included in our study and randomly assigned into two groups. In group A, after a long arteriotomy on LAD, the posterior sur...

Restenosis rate following vascular interventions still limits their long-term success. Oxidative stress plays a relevant role in this pathophysiological phenomenon, but less attention has been devoted to its effects on DNA damage and to the subsequent mechanisms of repair. We analysed in a model of arteriotomy-induced stenosis in rat carotids the time-dependent expression of DNA damage markers ...

During a 7-year period approximately 700 left heart cardiac catheterizations were carried out via open brachial arteriotomy. Of these, 25 patients with a missing or weak radial pulse after catheterization were referred for operation. Despite minimal early ischaemic symptoms and signs, all 25 patients had a complete occlusion of the brachial artery at the site of the arteriotomy. Commonest cause...

Purpose Brachial access is occasionally used for endovascular procedures when other more established or safer ones (eg, femoral or radial) are contraindicated. Although manual compression is the standard of care after brachial arteriotomy, suboptimal compression may lead to bleeding or thrombosis. Arteriotomy closure devices have thus been proposed as an alternative means to achieve hemostasis ...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery stabilization and retraction have been a crucial problem in beating heart bypass surgery. Conventional methods such as looping and suspension of the target artery carry risk of coronary artery damage. Above all, these methods do not aid in retraction in coronary arteriotomy. METHODS Five mongrel dogs were used in this study. After intratracheal general anesthesia, m...

BACKGROUND Traditionally, extensive prosthetic arteriovenous (AV) graft infection is treated with graft removal and the arteriotomy or the graft stumps were simply sutured following the removal of the graft. However, postoperative bleeding may occur which requires emergent intervention. We report the results achieved at our clinic after arteriotomy repair with venous graft interposition in re-b...

OBJECTIVES Coronary endarterectomy has been shown to be an effective adjunctive technique of revascularization for diffuse coronary artery disease. A long arteriotomy and reconstruction of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) are occasionally required for complete extraction of the atherosclerotic plaque. The aim of this study was to examine early and late results of this technique and com...