the most common cardiovascular surgery in the world and iran as well, is cabg. one of the most important post-operative complication of this operation, that increase morbidity and mortality, is peri-operative mi. incidence of peri-operative mi in cabg operations is between 2.5 to 5.5%. in this study we determined the prevalence and incremental risk factors of peri-operative mi in 300 consequati...

widely used for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. The post-operative patency of the bypass graft is important to predict the clinical outcome (1-3). Postoperative myocardial infarction is a rare, but potentially severe complication after CABG. So, the early recognition of the failure of a bypass graft on the early postoperative imaging is necessary to evaluate the quality of th...

BACKGROUND Myocardial hibernation and stunning are characterised by a reversible contractile dysfunction during and after ischaemia, respectively. Calcium homeostasis might be disturbed in hibernation and stunning due to altered expression of cardiac proteins involved in calcium handling. METHODS In enflurane-anaesthetised swine the coronary blood flow through the left anterior descending cor...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is an uncommon but potentially deadly complication of transmural myocardial infarction (MI). Emergency surgical treatment has traditionally offered the best chance for survival. However, operative intervention is associated with high mortality and can be complicated by a recurrent VSD due to tissue friability around the infarcted area. Percutaneous catheter-based...