While the standard revascularization for left main lesions traditionally has been surgical coronary artery bypass grafting, increasingly studies suggest that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DES) may be an acceptable alternative to surgery for selected patients. In total, the current evidence suggests that rates of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke may b...

Abstract Retrosternal chest pain is the classical symptom of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). ACS sometimes presents with atypical symptoms and very rarely as headache only symptom. We present here a case where patient who had undergone artery bypass grafting presented on evaluation found to have complete occlusion right artery.

To the Editor: In their article on coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG), Alexander and Smith (May 19 issue)1 state that “the usefulness of FFR [fractional flow reserve] in selecting patients with multivessel coronary artery disease for CABG or in identifying bypass graft targets in patients undergoing CABG has not been studied.” However, a prospective study by Botman et al.2 showed a relation...

This is one of two coronary revascularisation techniques currently used in the treatment of coronary artery disease, the other being percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The patient will already have had a clinical diagnosis of coronary heart disease (CHD), confirmed by coronary angiography to delineate the obstruction. If PCI is feasible, it may be performed at the time of coronary angiog...

Prosthetic grafts are required for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) when the availability of suitable autologous conduits is limited. The ideal cardiovascular bypass graft requires a broad range of characteristics including strength, viscoelasticity, biocompatibility, blood compatibility and biostability. Many alternative conduits have been developed and used in the past, but most of them...

Background and Objective: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the most commonly performed cardiac surgery globally in United States, however, women have worse outcomes than men. We aim to examine possible drivers of this sex difference CABG outcomes.

We describe the surgical management of three distinct coronary artery aneurysms in conjunction with coronary artery bypass grafting.

We report the case of a patient with a huge interatrial septal aneurysm as an intraoperative coincidental finding that led to a fatal outcome. The patient was admitted to our hospital in order to undergo elective coronary artery bypass grafting because he suffered from severe coronary artery disease. We intraoperatively diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography a huge interatrial septal ane...

The revival of off-pump cardiac surgery and the exploration of less invasive techniques for coronary artery bypass grafting, have lead to an increasing technical difficulty, as compared to conventional surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass. The moving target vessel in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery, as well as the increasingly limited space in minimally invasive cardiac surgery were not...