Coronary Disease

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Off-Pump Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Using the da Vinci 5: Closed-Chest Stabilizer Technique

September 4, 2026 | Hiroto Kitahara…

The patient was a 67-year-old man who was referred for surgical revascularization of coronary artery disease. Three months earlier, he had undergone emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to the right coronary artery. He had a...

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Comparison of RA and Saphenous Vein as the Third Conduit With BIMA in Coronary Bypass Surgery

September 24, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

In this 27-year single-center retrospective study, the authors compared radial artery (RA) vs saphenous vein graft (SVG) as the third conduit in patients receiving bilateral internal mammary arteries (BIMA) for...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 174: Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

September 17, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...

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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...

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Hybrid Revascularization With Robotic Totally Endoscopic Coronary Bypass and Stents

September 10, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

This single-center retrospective study examined 418 intent-to-treat hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR) patients undergoing robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) from 2013 to 2025, comparing those who completed planned...

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Cardiopulmonary Consequences of Vaping in Adolescents: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

June 23, 2022 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

This scientific statement is a granular contribution to a major cardiovascular issue, illuminating nuances of the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) FDA designation. One would expect the relevant Thoracic Associations...

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Ten-Year Outcomes of Off-Pump vs On-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in the Department of Veterans Affairs

April 14, 2022 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

This 10-year follow-up of the ROBY study reports on the primary end points of all-cause death and the composite of death or revascularization among 2203 patients randomized to off-pump or...

JANS Article

Registry for Acute Coronary Events in Nigeria (RACE-Nigeria): Clinical Characterization, Management, and Outcome

December 25, 2021 | Emily FarkasBronze Contributor

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...

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2021 ACC/AHA/SCAI Guideline for Coronary Artery Revascularization: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

December 10, 2021 | Wei-Guo Ma

On December 9, the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) jointly released a clinical practice guideline for coronary artery revascularization in patients with coronary artery disease....

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Dual Antiplatelet Therapy after PCI in Patients at High Bleeding Risk

November 9, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A good-size Terumo-sponsored RCT that is set to impact on decisions to discontinue DAPT early after PCI with absorbable stent, a change that will somehow decrease the surgical risk of...

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Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction

October 21, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A large randomised double-blinded trial reporting a considerable benefit ( 0.79 HR with very small p and supporting confidence intervals) of the Boehringer SGLPT-2 inhibitor regardless of presence of formal...

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Aspirin-Free Strategies in ACS: Is It the Drug or the Stent?

February 21, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An editorial that may herald the decrease in aspirinization and the rise of ticagrelor monotherapy in Percutaneous stenting of coronary arteries. There might be a peripheral relevance to the group...

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Mortality with Paclitaxel-Coated Devices in Peripheral Artery Disease

December 10, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An ad hoc interim analysis pursuant to previous publications raising concerns on Paclitaxel DCS in chronic critical and not-critical lower limb ischaemia. The short manuscript requires careful reading to form...

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