BACKGROUND There is renewed interest in coronary artery bypass grafting without cardiopulmonary bypass using the anterolateral minithoracotomy approach. We evaluated 209 patients who underwent minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting using an anterolateral minithoracotomy. The anastomosis was performed under direct vision on the beating heart without using cardiopulmonary bypas...

A rare clinical variant of angina manifestation as part the coronary steal syndrome in a patient with prior bilateral artery bypass grafting and subtotal brachiocephalic trunk stenosis is considered.

Anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery found in a symptomatic 9-year-old boy was initially treated with coronary artery bypass grafting using a left internal mammary artery anastomoses to the left anterior descending coronary artery, but resulted in coronary ischemia, likely from a steal phenomenon. Subsequent transection of the proximal left internal mammary artery with anastomosis to th...

Concurrent lung cancer and coronary artery disease requiring treatment with percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting is not rare. An individualized perioperative anticoagulation regimen and minimal surgical trauma will benefit the patient's postoperative recovery. We successfully treated a 68-year-old female patient with a lesion in the left anterior descending arte...

The left internal mammary artery is commonly used during coronary artery bypass grafting to provide direct revascularization for arteries, typically left anterior descending artery, with significant coronary atherosclerosis. In the world medical literature, we identified only 3 cases of well-documented anomalous origin of the left internal mammary artery from the aortic arch identified followin...

Background: The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of aquatic aerobic training on regulatory factors related to Reverse Cholesterol Transport in women after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods: 24 middle-aged women were studied after coronary artery bypass grafting (12 were in control group and 12 in aquatic aerobic training group)....

The radial artery (RA) is a commonly used conduit for coronary artery bypass grafting, and recent studies have demonstrated that it provides superior long-term patency rates to the saphenous vein in most situations. In addition, the RA is also being used with increasing frequency as the access point for coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary interventions. However, there has been concer...

OBJECTIVE Selected patients appear to benefit from off-pump coronary artery bypass compared with conventional coronary artery bypass with cardiopulmonary bypass. It is unknown whether elderly patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass grafting operations derive any benefit when performed off-pump. We hypothesized that off-pump coronary bypass offers a greater operative benefit to elder...

BACKGROUND The radial artery is often used as the second arterial graft for coronary artery bypass grafting. Little is known about the differences in long-term patency between radial free and T grafts. This study was performed to determine long-term radial artery patency over a 15-year period. METHODS AND RESULTS Radial arteries were used as free grafts or T grafts for coronary artery bypass ...