The surgical management of porcelain aorta in patients requiring aortic valve replacement or coronary artery surgery carries a high morbidity and mortality and remains controversial. We report a successful transapical aortic valve implantation in combination with on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in a young patient with severe aortic stenosis, left main coronary artery disease and porcela...

We report a case of coronary artery bypass grafting through the left thoracotomy in a patient who suffered from sternoclavicular joint infection with methicillin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus. We performed off-pump coronary bypass surgery, using the left internal thoracic artery to the left anterior descending coronary artery and a saphenous vein graft from the aorta to the circumflex artery...

OBJECTIVES Finding predictors of blood transfusion may facilitate the most efficient approach for the use of blood bank services in coronary artery bypass grafting procedures. The aim of this retrospective study is to identify preoperative and intraoperative patient characteristics predicting the need for blood transfusion during or after CABG in our local cardiac surgical service. METHODS 43...

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.

OBJECTIVE Preoperative use of clopidogrel increases the risk of bleeding, but its postoperative use has not been studied. We studied early postoperative clopidogrel use in on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. METHODS Data were obtained from the University HealthSystem Consortium database. We conducted a retrospective analysis of data of 15,067 adults who had coronary artery b...

The evolution of minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) grafting has extended the role of this approach for limited coronary revascularization. MIDCAB techniques can now be used to address isolated stenoses in the inferior and lateral coronary distributions. MIDCAB techniques are increasingly being used in the reoperative setting, and multiple vessels can be bypassed during a...

E et al. Off-pump or on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting at 30 days. versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for ischaemic heart disease. A meta-analysis of large randomized trials for mid-term major cardio-and cerebrovascular events following off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Long-term follow-up of morbidity and mortality after aortic valve replacement with a ...

BACKGROUND There is renewed interest in coronary artery bypass grafting without cardiopulmonary bypass using the anterolateral minithoracotomy approach. We evaluated 209 patients who underwent minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting using an anterolateral minithoracotomy. The anastomosis was performed under direct vision on the beating heart without using cardiopulmonary bypas...

BACKGROUND Left main trunk stenosis (> or = 50%) has traditionally been treated with coronary artery bypass grafting. Improvements in coronary stents have led some to advocate percutaneous coronary intervention. To provide a benchmark of outcomes against which percutaneous coronary intervention may be compared, we (1) assessed survival and freedom from coronary reintervention after coronary art...

INTRODUCTION The shortage of donor hearts for transplantation could be alleviated by including the hearts of older donors. Previous literature revealed similar early and medium-term survival outcomes compared with those of younger donors. This study presents our experience with patients who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation and concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting at our institu...