BACKGROUND The objective was to evaluate the impact of complete revascularization (CR) versus reasonable incomplete surgical revascularization (IR) in others than left anterior descending artery territory on early and late survival in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS AND RESULTS During a 7-year period, 8.806 consecutive patients with multivessel CAD affecting t...

Coronary artery anomalies are uncommon, with an incidence ranging between 0.2% and 1.4%. Among those least frequently observed is left main coronary artery atresia. We report the case of a 72-year-old man, with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis and moderate ventricular dysfunction. He underwent preoperative coronary angiography in which it was not possible to examine the left main coronary ar...

A single coronary artery (SCA) arising from the sinus of Valsalva and supplying the entire heart is a rare congenital anomaly. According to the modified Lipton's classification, R-1 is by far the most rare subtype of SCA, with an incidence of 0.0008% in patients undergoing coronary angiography. We present a case with an unreported anomaly, classified as Lipton R-I subtype, which initially follo...

We presented a case of left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm that was developed after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stent implantation. The aneurysm was plicated after removal of the stent device, and the left descending coronary artery was bypassed with the left internal thoracic artery. Few have reported surgical treatments for the coronary aneurysm including PCI s...

SUCCES SFUL REVASCULARIZATION OF the anterior left ventricle in patients suffering from coronary artery disease has been achieved by implantation of the internal mammary artery (Vineberg operation) .'' An extension of this procedure to include epicardiectomy, seropericardiec-tomy and free omental grafting (Vineberg procedure) has been proposed on the basis of increased survival following experi...