Introduction: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common type of heart disease, with a mortality rate of 385,000 person per year in the United States. There are two main methods for CAD treatments: angioplasty and bypass surgery. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is one of the greatest surgical operations of the 20th century and it is presented as most effective and long-term therapi...

Objective: Atrial ®brillation (AF), the common postoperative complication, has been observed after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in 7±40% of patients. Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), eliminated in off-pump operations (OPCABG) may decrease the incidence of AF, whereas the combination of CABG with heart valve replacement may result in more frequent postoperative atrial ®brillation. The aim...

CONTEXT Stroke is a devastating and potentially preventable complication of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Better understanding of the timing and risk factors for stroke associated with CABG are needed. OBJECTIVES To investigate temporal trends in stroke after CABG and to identify stroke risk factors and association with longitudinal outcomes. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Pro...

New-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is associated with poorer long-term survival and increased morbidity. Because greater age is associated with higher risk of new-onset postCABG AF, the trend toward increasing age and risk profiles in the population of patients undergoing CABG makes understanding this common complication of cardiac surgery a hig...

Coronary artery bypass grafts relieve angina and prolong some patients' lives with an operative mortality of 1-4%. The grafting requires temporary artificial maintenance of the blood's circulation and oxygenation with cardiopulmonary bypass. In the United States some 200 000 people yearly have a coronary artery bypass graft-six times as many in relation to the population as in Britain. The grea...

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is establishing itself as the standard of care across the world. MICS CABG is currently performed in only a few centers. Hemodynamics disturbances are peculiar during MICS CABG due to space constraints. We report a 70-year-old man who underwent MICS CABG who developed tension pneumothorax during revascularization that was diagnosed in a novel way.

: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has been changing since its initial reports. There a shift from standard CABG, which uses sternotomy and single left internal mammary to the anterior descending (LAD) grafting, plus vein grafts other targets, performed on with aortic cross-clamping. We now have CABG using multiarterial grafts, avoiding manipulation of aorta, through minimally invasive ap...