Coronary Disease - Surgery
The rising burden of CAD in low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria is a result of the epidemiological transition from communicable to non- communicable diseases. The system of care for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is...
In this pre-specified analysis of the EXCEL trial, 1,882 patients with left main disease underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (n=952) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) (n=930). At five years,...
This study examined the long-term survival of patients undergoing multiarterial grafting (MAG) versus single-arterial grafting (SAG) in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). After analyzing data from more than one million...
The benefits of early extubation in the operating room (OR) following cardiac surgery remain unproven. In this study, the authors evaluated perioperative outcomes after extubation in the OR versus extubation...
In this study, the authors performed a propensity matched analysis of hospital costs for robotic-assisted CABG vs. conventional CABG. 1,173 patients were included in the analysis from 2018 until 2021....
Head and colleagues used a patient-data pooled analysis of 11 randomized clinical trials to compare stroke rates between surgical and percutaneous coronary revascularization. They found that in the first 30...
Introduction Although the routine use of the internal thoracic artery (ITA) and great saphenous vein (SV) is well established among cardiac surgeons (1, 2), there is considerable debate regarding the...
Dr Claudio Ronco, senior author of the study. Research published recently in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery suggests a new approach for evaluating a patient’s risk for acute kidney injury...
Patient Care and General Interest A guideline for the number of opioid pills that should be prescribed after different surgeries, from cochlear implantation to coronary artery bypass grafting, is self-published...
Patient Care and General Interest Screening infants for critical congenital heart disease at birth is becoming mandatory in the US state of Idaho and the Indian state of Kerala. Tufts...
Marco Ranucci of the IRCCS Policlinico San Donato in San Donato Milanese, Italy, discusses the association between hemodilution, oxygen delivery, and acute kidney injury during and after cardiopulmonary bypass. He...
Patient Care and General Interest Cardiac arrest survivors gathered at Basildon Hospital in the UK to share their stories and raise awareness, while attempting to set a world record for...
James Tatoulis of the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia presents technical tips and tricks for total arterial revascularizaiton. Dr Tatoulis discusses harvesting radial and internal thoracic arteries, and he shows...





