Coronary Disease - Surgery
In this international randomized trial, 170 selected patients with multivessel coronary artery disease underwent minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) through a small thoracotomy (n=86) or conventional sternotomy (n=84). At one month, patient-reported physical...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Johnston and colleagues evaluated morbidity and mortality following different cardiac operations at 18 institutions to determine if outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), aortic valve replacement, and mitral valve...
Om Prakesh Yadava, of the National Heart Institute in New Delhi, India, interviews Marc Ruel of the University of Ottawa in Canada. Drs Yadava and Ruel discuss minimally invasive cardiac...






