Abstract In this case report, we describe a giant coronary aneurysm (CAAs) of the right artery occasionally found in patient that underwent Bentall procedure 18 years earlier for acute aortic dissection. A 77–year–old man, former smoker, with type II diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and obesity, was referred to our echo lab echocardiography December 2020. His medical history included ante...

Received January 13, 2010; accepted for publication March 29, 2010 Address reprint requests to Salvatore Lentini, MD FESC: CardioVascular and Thoracic Department, Policlinico G. Martino Hospital, Università di Messina, Viale Gazzi, 98100 Messina, Italy. ©2010 The Editorial Committee of Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights reserved.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to report our 19-year experience in redo surgery for failure of mitral valve repair (MVRep) in degenerative disease. METHODS From 1987 to 2006, 43 consecutive patients (32 males) underwent either redo MVRep (n = 21) or redo mitral valve replacement (n = 22) for failure of MVRep. Age ranged from 10 to 78 years (median, 59 years). Forty-one patients (95%...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated patients underwent cardiac valve surgery in the presence of infective endocarditis in an attempt to identify independent predictors of 30-day mortality. METHODS We evaluated 837 consecutive patients underwent cardiac valve surgery from January 2003 to May 2010 in a tertiary hospital in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo (SP), Brazil. The study group comprised patients who...

case presentation a 43-year-old man was referred to our institution for a severe aortic regurgitation and an ascending aorta enlargement associated with a relapsing sub-aortic membrane, which had been treated in his childhood. he underwent a redo ascending aorta replacement and an aortic valve replacement (mechanical prosthesis) along with a resection of the relapsing sub-valvular membrane. som...

OBJECTIVES The benefits of off-pump coronary artery grafting (OPCAB) have been demonstrated. Especially in patients with a high number of comorbidities, redo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains a difficult entity of CABG, because patients are likely to have multiple risk factors and often have diseased patent grafts with adhesions. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the eff...

introduction aortic surgery has made much progress recently. yet the combination of aortic surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting has remained a major issue for the surgeons. patient and observation herein, we present a case of severe aortic insufficiency with aortic aneurysm concomitant with single coronary artery disease on the right coronary artery. the patient underwent bentall procedu...

background the prevalence of chronic postoperative pain after cardiac surgery has been reported from 17% to 56%. objectives we aimed to compare the prevalence of postoperative pain between patients who had undergone cabg using the internal mammary artery (ima) and those who had undergone other cardiac surgeries including cabg using the saphenous vein or cardiac valvular surgeries. patients and ...