The prevalence of anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery is 0.4 percent to 0.8 percent. The decision to operate and choice of procedure can be challenging.
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Coronary disease
June 20, 2024
This video demonstrates the authors’ surgical technique for bilateral internal thoracic harvesting and grafting.
June 5, 2024
This report comprises the contents of the presentations and following discussions of a workshop of the German Heart Transplant Centers in Martinsried, Germany on cardiac xenotransplantation.
May 31, 2024
Four surgeons presented their biggest mistakes in CABG surgery and how they went about fixing them. They emphasized the importance of surgeons sharing their mistakes so others can learn from them.
May 30, 2024
This paper details an under-development animal model to study the vascular pathology of vein grafts in a variation of the initial Carrel canine bypass experiment. The possible findings on detrimental effects of hydrostatic distention, if and when quantified, may alter surgeons’ harvesting techniques.
May 28, 2024
This operative video demonstrates repair of the left main coronary ostial atresia in an infant.
May 18, 2024
Succinct but comprehensive expert viewpoint on Support in Cardiogenic Shock vis -a -vis the manuscript of DanGer trial on promising results of Impella in highly selected subgroup (360 patients in a decade). The important point made is that of careful selection
May 17, 2024
Ten experts presented their abstracts on subjects, including the impact of atrial fibrillation on long-term CABG outcomes, protection of coronary arteries in pericardiectomy, and more.
May 10, 2024
Five experts made presentations on topics including the future of non-surgical management of coronary disease, the future of coronary surgery research, new coronary guidelines, and more.
May 3, 2024
Topics covered include SVG outcomes over the last 20 years, elimination of SVGs, best practices in SVG harvesting for CABG, and more.