ALLMedicine™ Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Center

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become the preferred intervention for patients with severe aortic stenosis and significant comorbidities. This technique can also be used for failed bioprosthetic valves and is known as the valve-i...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) is a technically demanding procedure with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Therefore, preoperative evaluation of anatomy is indispensable. Multi-detector row computed tomography (CT) enables us to precisely under...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Background Saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) are broadly used in coronary artery bypass grafting despite their inferior patency compared with arterial grafts. Recently, the no-touch technique (NT), in which an SVG is harvested with a pedicle of perivas...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Background: The Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure Trial (STICH) demonstrated that coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) reduced all-cause mortality rates out to 10 years compared with medical therapy alone (MED) in patients with ische...

Jan 19th, 2022 - We sought to compare the long-term outcomes of multiarterial graft (MAG) coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) versus percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) to treat stable multivessel coronary a...

Jul 18th, 2021 - 2021: The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Expert Consensus Document: Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure.|2021|Bakaeen FG,Gaudino M,Whitman G,Doenst T,Ruel M,|standards,diagnostic im...

Jun 22nd, 2021 - Management of carotid bifurcation stenosis in stroke prevention has been the subject of extensive investigations, including multiple randomized controlled trials. The proper treatment of patients with carotid bifurcation disease is of major intere...

Nov 23rd, 2019 - Transradial access (TRA) is increasingly used worldwide for percutaneous interventional procedures and associated with lower bleeding and vascular complications than transfemoral artery access. Radial artery occlusion (RAO) is the most frequent po...

Dec 19th, 2015 - Internal thoracic arteries (ITAs) should be used to bypass the left anterior descending (LAD) artery when bypass of the LAD is indicated (class of recommendation [COR] I, level of evidence [LOE] B). As an adjunct to left internal thoracic artery (...

Jul 31st, 2013 - Numerous definitions have been proposed for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) after coronary revascularization. The universal definition for MI designates post procedural biomarker thresholds for defining percutaneous coronary interventi...

Jan 14th, 2022 - Primary Efficacy Objective: To demonstrate faster time to extubation after arrival in the cardiothoracic ICU in patients having a CABG who receive Sugammadex 2mg/kg as compared to placebo. Hypotheses: We hypothesize that the use of Sugammadex for ...

Dec 17th, 2021 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Cardiac rehabilitation is a multifaceted physical activity program that incorporates medication adherence, smoking cessation, nutrition, and psychol...

Dec 14th, 2021 - Within the first year of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, the saphenous vein grafts have a failure rate of 10 to 25%. Visual inspection of the vein graft conduit is the current standard in determining the quality of the vein segment...

Dec 14th, 2021 - Nil by mouth (NBM) has been the standard of care for cardiac catheterization since its inception. The associated vomiting was common with the first generation of radiocontrast materials that were almost toxic, and with the use of general anaesthes...

Dec 9th, 2021 - Background. Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common complications in the postoperative period of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery and usually associated with increased length of hospital stay and higher hospital costs. Among th...

Jan 5th, 2022 - Patients with complex coronary artery disease (CAD) — either three-vessel disease and/or left main disease — who also had heavy coronary artery calcification (CAC) had greater all-cause mortality 10 years after revascularization compared to those ...

Dec 30th, 2021 - The study covered in this summary was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways The study demonstrates that the prevalence of right subclavian plaques is an independent risk factor for future c...

Dec 9th, 2021 - It's time to treat everyone who requires coronary revascularization based on their clinical indication, without letting sex, race, or ethnicity enter the picture, updated professional guidelines emphasized. Equity was the top takeaway message high...

Sep 13th, 2021 - An Alabama man had a cardiac arrest and died while emergency department staff called dozens of hospitals in search of an available ICU bed. (Newsweek) Here's one way to deliver bystander CPR and basic life support training to the public during the...

Aug 17th, 2021 - The story of interventional cardiologist Sherman Sorensen, MD, and his numerous patent foramen ovale closures, fraudulent billing, and pending malpractice lawsuits. (The Atlantic) A cardiologist in Australia caught with "deviant, distressing and d...