Minimally Invasive CABG
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Rawn Salenger, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, USA, spoke with T. Sloane Guy, a cardiovascular surgeon at Georgia...
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Rawn Salenger, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, USA, spoke with T. Sloane Guy,...
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...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University...
In this single-center propensity-matched analysis of 659 patients undergoing minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB), bilateral internal mammary artery grafting achieved short- and mid-term clinical outcomes comparable to single...
This commentary succinctly reviews the 2021 coronary revascularization and the 2023 chronic coronary disease guidelines with relation to use of PCI and CABG in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and ejection...
This article investigates long term survival of total arterial coronary artery bypass grafting comparatively in a male versus female population. The retrospective analysis revealed that, compared to vein dependent procedures,...
This is a video by Professor Tristan Yan, who performs a total arterial anaortic off-pump bypass procedure, without manipulating the ascending aorta, which reduces the risk of stroke. He first...
This commentary refers to “PCI or CABG for left main coronary artery disease: the SWEDEHEART registry,” by J. Persson et al. In their commentary, the authors discuss the evidence that...
The impact of the surgeon’s experience on outcomes following off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) is widely known. However, there is a lack of safe and effective strategies for OPCAB...
In findings presented at the STS annual meeting, the ten-year data showed the survival benefit of multi- over single-arterial grafting in all but patients who are severely obese. The...
The ISCHEMIA trial has caused heated discussion in the cardiovascular field, with its results being used to downgrade coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) recommendations in recent guidelines. The authors of...
In this study, the authors performed a propensity matched analysis of hospital costs for robotic-assisted CABG vs. conventional CABG. 1,173 patients were included in the analysis from 2018 until 2021....


