Coronary Disease - Surgery

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Right Pleuro-Pericardial Window During Cardiac Surgery: A Safe and Simple Technique That Decreases Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

September 3, 2026 | Nadine Kawkabani

Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is a common complication following cardiac surgery. One of the major factors predisposing to the development of POAF is inflammation related to pericardial effusions, which may occur after cardiac surgery. A...

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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...

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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...

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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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Intraoperative Assessment of Flow in CABG Surgery

May 24, 2018 | Rune Haaverstad

Rune Haaverstad of Bergen University Hospital in Norway discusses transit-time flowmetry to confirm graft patency after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). He argues that flowmetry is a useful addition to...

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Single Versus Multi-Center Surgeons’ Risk-Adjusted Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedural Outcomes

May 9, 2018 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Shroyer and colleagues evaluated observed-to-expected outcome ratios for 30-day operative mortality and major morbidity across over 540,000 nonemergent first-time coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures in The Society for Thoracic...

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CABG: Making Veins Great Again

May 2, 2018 | David Taggart…

Filmed at the 2017 EACTS Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Stan Antonides of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, moderates a discussion on the patency and longevity of vein...

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Radial-Artery or Saphenous-Vein Grafts in Coronary-Artery Bypass Surgery

May 1, 2018 | Ruben OsnabruggeSilver Contributor

The authors performed a patient-level meta-analysis of six randomized trials comparing left internal mammary artery (LIMA) + saphenous vein graft (SVG) versus LIMA + radial artery graft. In a total...

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In Global News: Improving Vein Grafts, a Suture-Based Percutaneous Mitral Device, and Donating CT Surgical Equipment

April 27, 2018 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Patient Care The Jos University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria has received a donation of surgical equipment for cardiothoracic surgery from Project CURE, which will allow the hospital to offer more...

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Effect of Ticagrelor Plus Aspirin, Ticagrelor Alone, or Aspirin Alone on Saphenous Vein Graft Patency 1 Year After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Randomized Clinical Trial

April 24, 2018 | Arie BlitzGold ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors report on a randomized, multicenter, open-label, clinical trial involving 500 patients with 1460 saphenous vein grafts (SVG) who were assigned to three groups: (1) ticagrelor + asprin (ASA),...

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Hybrid Coronary Revascularization in Selected Patients With Multivessel Disease: 5-Year Clinical Outcomes of the Prospective Randomized Pilot Study

April 20, 2018 | Arie BlitzGold ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors present the 5-year follow-up results of the HYBRID trial, wherein 200 patients with multivessel disease requiring revascularization were randomized to either conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or...

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Preoperative Scale to Determine All-Cause Readmission After Coronary Artery Bypass Operations

April 18, 2018 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), the second most common cardiac procedure in the US, was added to the US Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in 2015. Given the relatively high rate...

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