functional mitral regurgitation (mr) results from left ventricular remodeling, leaflet tethering or tenting. coronary artery disease is one of the important causes of functional mr due to tethering. detection of functional mr and its severity are important factors in patient prognosis. there are different methods for detection of functional mr and its severity, including anterior mitral leaflet...

background: elderly patients (>75 years) have constituted the fastest growing portion of the coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) patient population over the last two decades. of the goals that surgical care for the elderly pursues, cure may be an unfeasible one; nevertheless, palliation and comfort warrant sufficient importance. the present study sought to examine the postoperative course an...

background: we compared the outcomes in patients with a low ejection fraction (ef) and multivessel coronary artery disease (cad) who either underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) or received medical treatment (mt) after a viability study via dobutamine stress echocardiography (dse). methods: we considered patients with cad and left ventricular ejection fraction (lvef) <40% who were re...

introduction : there is always concerns regarding postoperative bleeding in coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) patients; a number of different strategies have been used to compensate for it and to reduce the amount of blood transfusion. we designed this study to see if local fibrinogen could decrease postoperative bleeding in adult cabg, which is not studied yet. materials and methods : in a d...

conclusions physical or physiological and psychological stressors impose greater stress and are predictors of anxiety. when preparing their nursing care plan, nurses should consider these stressors that affect anxiety levels in patients undergoing cabg surgery and those hospitalized in intensive care units. patients and methods this is a descriptive-analytical study that uses a non-random conve...

introduction: pain management after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) is an ‎important nursing care which can result in faster recovery and patient satisfaction.‎ objective: the aim of study was to determine post cabg patients’ perception on pain management ‎quality.‎ methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on ‎‏108‏‎ cabg patients, who were chosen by ‎sequential sampling me...

aim and background: coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery is the most common surgical procedure for patients suffering from coronary artery diseases. many studies demonstrated cabg as a serious crisis for patients resulting in excessive stress and anxiety. this study was performed to assess the effects of reflexology on anxiety levels among cabg surgery candidates in shahid chamran hospit...

O coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) is a technique of performing coronary anastomosis on a beating heart without instituting cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Coronary stabilizers (CS) are used for local cardiac wall immobilization and access to the heart can be achieved by a lateral, anterolateral, subxyphoidal or midsternal incision. With median sternotomy and use of CS, all sides of the heart can b...

BACKGROUND We report an intraoperative retrograde dissection of the aorta and its subsequent evaluation by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). CASE PRESENTATION A 78 year old woman with an ascending aortic aneurysm without dissection and coronary artery disease was brought to the operating room for aneurysm repair and coronary artery bypass grafting. After initiation of cardiopulmonary by...

BACKGROUND Primary benign tumors of the heart are extremely rare and usually difficult to diagnose for their asymptomatic signs. CASE PRESENTATION A 66-year-old woman was admitted for shortness of breath caused by a large left atrial lipoma combined with coronary artery disease. Next, we successfully performed simultaneous curative surgery for the large cardiac lipoma and coronary artery bypa...