Issues related to psychological recovery following coronary bypass surgeries (CABG) have emerged in recent years. Other research has shown the effects of spiritual or religious activities on health and aging. However, little is known about the relationship of spiritual coping, including religious coping, to post-CABG adjustment. This study addressed multifactorial determinants of postoperative ...

AIMS The CARDia (Coronary Artery Revascularization in Diabetes) trial compared coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and optimal percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in diabetic patients with multivessel coronary disease. Patients enrolled had symptoms of myocardial ischaemia. As symptom assessment is flawed in diabetic patients, a substudy was undertaken to compare the extent to which the...

Background: Postoperative hypoxia (POH) is a complication that often occurs in patients after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG). Breathing exercises are considered effective overcoming POH CABG. However, this intervention has not been implemented using the dynamic nurse-patient relationship model from Ida Jean Orlando. The expected to improve quality of nursing care cardiac surgery.Purpose...

In the present study we identify parameters which influence the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI), need for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and cardiac mortality after minimal invasive coronary artery bypass grafting (MIDCABG). With a mean follow-up of 30+/-11.2 months, 390 patients were assessed with Wald test-corrected chi(2) analysis to ...

OBJECTIVES The present study was aimed to identify the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative predictors of AF in a pure cohort of the patients with coronary artery disease who underwent CABG surgery. METHODS Between November 2005 and May 2006, 302 consecutive patients were included in this prospective study. All the relevant clinical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and lab...

The optimal time for discharge following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is uncertain and varies among institutions. This study was undertaken to determine what factors may discriminate between early and late discharge following surgery. In 177 consecutive patients undergoing isolated CABG procedures, three groups were formed retrospectively according to the number of days hospitali...

OBJECTIVES Preventing stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains a therapeutic goal, due in part to the lack of identifiable risk factors. The aim of this study, accordingly, was to identify risk factors in CABG patients with a previous history of stroke. METHODS Patients with a history of stroke who underwent CABG at Beijing An Zhen hospital from January 2007 to July 2010 we...

Methods Pre-operative magnetic resonance angiography was performed on 1,367 consecutive CABG patients to assess Intracranial and extracranlal cerebral atherosclerosis. Disease severity was evaluated by atherosclerosis score, as determined by the number of steno-occluslons of cerebral arteries and the degree thereof. Post-CABG strokes (within 14 days) were classified as atherosclerotic (strokes ...