This prospective study evaluates the surgical outcome of 75 consecutive patients with impaired left ventricular function, including an analysis of predictors of the short-term outcome following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Seventy-five patients (mean age 64 +/- 13 years) with coronary artery disease and impaired left ventricular function (left ventricular ejection fraction [EF] < or ...

in patients requiring coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg), usually at least one of the internal mammary arteries is used. this study evaluates the degree of atherosclerotic involvement of the internal mammary artery (ima) in patients undergoing cabg. during two months period, 79 patients (66 male and 13 female with a medium age of 58 years) undergoing myocardial revascularization had a biops...

● When possible, patients at high risk for mortality or severe left ventricular (LV) dysfunction with signs of shock, pulmonary congestion, heart rate .100 beats per minute (bpm), plus systolic blood pressure (SBP) ,100 mm Hg should be triaged to facilities capable of performing cardiac catheterization and rapid revascularization (PCI or coronary artery bypass graft surgery [CABG]). For patient...

the left ventricular aneurysm is one of the most significant complications of myocardial infarction and is defined as the expansion of the ventricular wall. the coronary artery aneurysm is characterized by an abnormal dilation of the localized portion of the coronary artery, and its main cause is atherosclerosis. we herein report an unusual case of coronary artery and left ventricular aneurysms...

conclusions this study shows that pci in symptomatic post cabg patients follows by high successful and low complication rate and positive impression on their cardiac symptoms and could reduce the need for redo cabg. it seems that there is no difference that pci is performing on svg or native vessel, the intervention itself improves the patients’ quality of life. patients and methods in this stu...

This study evaluated the outcomes of off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (OPCAB) with severe left ventricular dysfunction using composite bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting. From January 2001 to December 2008, 1,842 patients underwent primary isolated OPCAB with composite bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting. A total of 131 of these patients were diagnosed with a severely de...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this work was to observe the hemodynamic stability on the first 24 hours in 4 patients with ventricular dysfunction (Ejected Fraction < 40 %), considered of high surgical risk, in which 24 at 48 hr before the surgery received an infusion of Levosimendan for 24 hours. This 4 patients was male, with age 55.5+/-7.9 years old, a left ventricle ejection of fraction (LVEF) o...

Coronary artery spasm in perioperative of coronary artery bypass graft surgery is a serious complication, with high rate mortality. Patient 51 years-old submitted to coronary artery bypass graft surgery without Extracorporeal Circulation. The patient evolved in 1st post operative (PO) day with enzymatic alteration and ST-elevation, developing soon afterwards in ventricular fibrillation, defibri...

In this observational treatment comparison in a single center over 25 years, we sought to assess long-term outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) or medical therapy in patients with heart failure, coronary artery disease, and left ventricular systolic dysfunction. The benefit of CABG compared with medical therapy alone in these patients is a source of continuing clinical debate. This...

background: a good animal model for coronary surgery experiments has been difficult to establish. an ideal model should have the closest morphological resemblance to human beings. the objective of this study is to establish sheep as a model for these experiments. methods: the anatomical aspects of left anterior descending coronary artery (lad) and right internal thoracic artery (rita) in the sh...