Coronary Disease

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Minimally Invasive RCA Reimplantation for Anomalous Aortic Origin of the Right Coronary Artery

July 23, 2025 | Ahmad Ali AmirghofranBronze ContributorBronze Commentor

This article is part of CTSNet’s Guest Editor Series, Coronary Arterial Anomalies—Pediatric and Adult Congenital. CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said invited both pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons from around the world to contribute clinical...

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In Vivo Base Editing of PCSK9 With VERVE-102 for Hypercholesterolemia

June 25, 2026 | Vincent SierSilver Contributor

In this article, the authors report interim results of Heart 2, a phase 1, open label, single ascending dose study of VERVE 102, a GalNAc lipid nanoparticle delivering mRNA for...

Event

The Houston Aortic Symposium 2027

March 4, 2027

Thursday, March 4, 2027 – Saturday, March 6, 2027 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm – The Houston Aortic Symposium brings together world-renowned cardiothoracic and vascular surgeons to deliver cutting-edge...

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Time of Day of Cardiac Surgery and Postoperative Outcomes in the UK: A Secondary Analysis of Linked National Datasets

June 11, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This article examines the impact of surgery timing on postoperative outcomes in cardiac surgery. An analysis of data from 24,068 patients revealed that surgeries performed in the late morning (10:00...

Article

First-in-Human Gene Therapy for Vein Graft Failure

May 28, 2026 | Nawwar Al Attar

Background and Rationale Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery remains a cornerstone treatment for advanced coronary heart disease. However, the long-term efficacy of CABG is frequently compromised by the failure...

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Initial Invasive or Conservative Strategy for Stable Coronary Disease

April 3, 2020 | Wei-Guo Ma

In the ISCHEMIA Trial, 5179 patients with moderate or severe myocardial ischemia were randomized equally into two groups based on initial management strategy: initial invasive strategy (angiography and revascularization when...

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Left-Digit Bias and CABG

February 20, 2020 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

This study of Medicare beneficiaries evaluated how often CABG was performed related to narrow intervals around a patient’s birthday. Those who were seen just prior to their 80th birthday (thus...

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Percutaneous Coronary Angioplasty Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Treatment of Unprotected Left Main Stenosis (NOBLE): A Prospective, Randomised, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority Trial

January 10, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

‘CABG was significantly better than PCI (p=0·0066……..”

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The Discussion Continues as the EXCEL Authors Respond to EACTS’s Withdrawal of Support of the LMS Chapter of the EACTS/ESC Revascularization Guidelines

December 19, 2019 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

Following the withdrawal of the support of EACTS for the left main stem chapter of the EACTS/ESC Chapter of the revascularisation guidelines following the BBC Newsnight documentary of this, and...

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Five-Year Outcomes After PCI or CABG for Left Main Coronary Disease

November 6, 2019 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

In this randomized trial, percutaneous coronary intervention and CABG had equivalent outcomes for the composite of death, stroke, or myocardial infarction at five years for patients with left main disease...

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Outcomes of Second Arterial Conduits in Patients Undergoing Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

October 29, 2019 | Edward Savage

This article reviews real-life outcomes of 42,714 patients undergoing coronary bypass grafting from 2005 to 2012. After adjusting for the differences in the populations, the patients who received multiple arterial...

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Peripheral Vasoconstriction During Mental Stress and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

October 26, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Interesting clinicolaboratory experiment: Any translational value for the coronary surgeon and the cardiologist remains to be seen, especially regarding the risk stratification and prioritization for urgent (inpatient) revascularisation. Also, the...

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Complete Revascularization with Multivessel PCI for Myocardial Infarction

October 19, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Quite interesting to see that the incidence of revascularisation after multivessel PCA (the additional element on the second co-primary outcome) appears to have occured in more than 1% of the...

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