Coronary Disease - Surgery

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 173: Uniportal Robotics in the UAE

September 10, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the UAE. They discussed the advantages...

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Left Atrial Tumor Excision With Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repair and Coronary Revascularization

October 28, 2026 | Dmytro BabliakBronze Contributor…

The authors present a case of left atrial tumor excision combined with mitral and tricuspid valve repair and coronary revascularization, performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy in the fourth intercostal...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 177: Expert Consensus Document on LVRS for Emphysema

October 15, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...

JANS Article

Influence of LAD-Diagonal Stenosis on Long-Term Patency and Ischemic Events After CABG

October 8, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

This single-center retrospective study evaluated whether stenosis in the intervening left anterior descending artery (iLAD), between the internal thoracic artery (ITA) anastomosis and diagonal bifurcation, affects ITA-LAD graft events after...

JANS Article

Association Between Interventional Cardiologist Practice Characteristics, CABG Use, and Clinical Outcomes

October 8, 2026 | EACTS StaffSilver Contributor

Across 252,408 angiograms performed by 40 interventional cardiologists in British Columbia (2010–2024), the proportion of patients referred for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) varied 13-fold (2.03 percent–26.4 percent) and was...

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Randomized Trial of Endoscopic or Open Vein-Graft Harvesting for Coronary-Artery Bypass

November 15, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

An interesting randomized controlled trial asserting robustly that endoscopic harvesting of saphenous vein is: (1) better for leg dehiscence and (2) at least noninferior for MACE compared to the conventional...

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Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) vs. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in the Treatment of Multivessel Coronary Disease: Quo Vadis? —a Review of the Evidences on Coronary Artery Disease

September 19, 2018 | Marco NardiniSilver Contributor

This comphrensive review by Spadaccio and Benedetto try to address the unanswered question: to stent or not to stent? The conclusions underline that the higher cerebrovascular risks associated with surgery...

JANS Article

In Global News: A Heart Donor Meets the Woman Who Was Given Her Heart, CABG in the Maldives, and PTE in Lebanon

August 17, 2018 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Patient Care and General Interest A congenital heart surgeon in Boston, Massachusetts, was once a patient himself. A team at the ADK hospital in the Maldives has performed the country’s...

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Debate: Optimal Strategy for High Risk Coronary Patients – Conventional Bypass

August 16, 2018 | Alan Bryan

Alan J. Bryan of the Bristol Heart Institute in the UK argues that on-pump coronary bypass surgery is as good an option as off-pump surgery for patients with high surgical...

JANS Article

In Global News: Subspecializing for CABG, the Australian Transplant Games, and CHD Screening in China

August 10, 2018 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Patient Care and General Interest A New Zealand woman with cystic fibrosis who is a lung transplant recipient prepares to compete in swimming, biking, and running events in the Australian...

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Economic Burden of Surgical Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

August 9, 2018 | Benjamin Bidstrup

This is a look at the costs related to surgical site infections (SSI), as defined by CDC. They show the impact on the monetary costs as well as length of...

JANS Article

Stroke Rates Following Surgical Versus Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization

July 31, 2018 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

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...

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Harmonic Shears for Skeletonized Internal Thoracic Arteries and Great Saphenous Vein Harvesting

July 17, 2018 | Corrado Cavozza…

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...

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