one of the most serious complications of mitral valve replacement is left ventricular rupture and pseudoaneurysm formation, which is rare but potentially lethal. we herein present a late type of post mitral valve replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery pseudoaneurysm in a 74-year-old female, who was admitted to our hospital with a recent history of exertional dyspnea. she had the above-m...

The IMPACT-CABG study is the first Canadian randomized-controlled phase II clinical trial aiming to assess the effect of intramyocardial (IM) injections of CD133(+)-selected stem cells in patients referred for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) with a "chronic" myocardial infarction and persistent left ventricular dysfunction. Patients are followed for 2 years with different imaging techniques...

The concept of hibernating myocardium originated from observations in the 1970s that the myocardial dysfunction seen in patients with chronic coronary artery disease (CAD) was not always permanent (1). The fact that revascularization with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) could result in the recovery of contractile function in previously akinetic segments led to the development of numerous...

conclusions cabg may be the superior form of treatment for long-term outcomes in terms of the relief of chest pain, improvement of the functional class, reduced need for re-admission, and later death for octogenarians. however, short-term morbidity may be higher among the cabg group, but the mortality rate after 30 days is quite similar. background appropriate treatment methods lead to a reduce...

background: obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is very frequent and often unrecognized in surgical patients. osa is associated with perioperative complications. we evaluated the effects of osa on postoperative complications and hospital outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. methods: candidates of elective cabg were evaluated by the berlin questionnaire for osa....

This report presents the 42-month survival experience of 91 patients with a significant lesion of the left main coronary artery in the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study of Coronary Bypass Surgery. Survival in surgical patients was significantly better than that in the medical group (p = 0.016), even after adjustments were made for two important differences in baseline characteristics--d...

T he differentiation of viable from nonviable myocardium in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction is an issue of increasing clinical relevance in the current era of myocardial revascularization. It is now well established that impaired left ventricular function does not always represent an irreversible process. However, until recently, determining whether impair...

Background:Cardiac rehabilitation program (CRP) is a useful method of modifying cardiovascular risk factors, improving life expectancy and quality of life in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of cardiac rehabilitation on the pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LV...

BACKGROUND In the present study 15 years of experience with surgical coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction were retrospectively analyzed. METHODS AND RESULTS Between August 1990 and May 2005, a total of 120 patients with severe LV dysfunction (LV ejection fraction (EF)<or=30%) caused by coronary artery disease underwent CABG (mean age 60.3 y...