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Coronary-artery bypass surgery in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2016
BACKGROUND The survival benefit of a strategy of coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) added to guideline-directed medical therapy, as compared with medical therapy alone, in patients with coronary artery disease, heart failure, and severe left ...
Cox DR, Eric J. Velazquez, George Sopko, Hussein R. Al-Khalidi, Jae K. Oh, James A. Hill, Jean L. Rouleau, Julio A. Panza, Kerry L. Lee, Lilin She, Mark C. Petrie, Muhlbaier LH, Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, Qiu P, Robert E. Michler, Robert H. Jones, Robert O. Bonow, Topkara VK, Torsten Doenst, Vanessa L. Moore   +19 more
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Protocol for the Arterial Revascularisation Trial (ART). A randomised trial to compare survival following bilateral versus single internal mammary grafting in coronary revascularisation [ISRCTN46552265] [PDF]

Trials, 2006
BACKGROUND: Standard coronary artery bypass graft surgery uses a single internal mammary artery and supplemental vein or radial artery grafts. Several observational studies have suggested a survival benefit with two internal mammary artery grafts ...
Alastair Gray, Belinda Lees, David P Taggart, Douglas G Altman, Keith Channon, Marcus Flather, null null   +6 more
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Simultaneous nephrectomy and coronary artery bypass grafting through extended sternotomy [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2012
BACKGROUND: The advances in surgical techniques, resuscitation and anesthesiology support over the last years have allowed simultaneous thoracic and abdominal operations to be made for cancer and concomitant severe heart vessel disease relieving the ...
Algimantas Budrikis, Mindaugas Jievaltas, Sami Al Assaad, Sarunas Kinduris   +3 more
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Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery [PDF]

Circulation, 2003
Each year 300,000 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) operations are performed in the United States, 25% of them in women. Over the past 30 years the patient population undergoing surgery has dramatically changed. In the early 1970s only a few patients (men and women) over the age of 70 years and/or with an ejection fraction less than 50% were felt ...
Brian Buxton, Siven Seevanayagam
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Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

International Heart Journal, 2014
In this study, we examined the early results for patients who underwent beating heart coronary bypass surgery and compared these results with those of conventional coronary bypass surgery.A total of 1094 patients who underwent isolated coronary artery bypass surgery between January 2009 and December 2011 in our clinic were included in this study ...
Cakir, Habib, Uncu, Hasan, Gur, Ozcan, Yurekli, Ismail, Acipayam, Mehmet, Ozsoyler, Ibrahim   +5 more
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“Keyhole” Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Annals of Surgery, 1996
The objective of this study was to identify the utility of "keyhole" thoracotomy approaches to single vessel coronary artery bypass surgery.Although minimally invasive surgery is efficacious in a wide variety of surgical disciplines, it has been slow to emerge in cardiac surgery. Among 49 selected patients, the authors have used a left anterior keyhole
R J, Landreneau, M J, Mack, J A, Magovern, T A, Acuff, D H, Benckart, T A, Sakert, L S, Fetterman, B P, Griffith   +7 more
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Coronary artery bypass surgery morbidity

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1984
A retrospective analysis was undertaken of 365 consecutive patients, 75 women and 290 men with a mean age of 59.9 +/- 9.7 years, who had coronary artery bypass surgery during 1981. Complications classified as major were: mediastinal hemorrhage, pericardial tamponade, wound dehiscence, sternal osteomyelitis, myocardial infarction, bacterial endocarditis,
Kuan, Peiliang, Bernstein, Stephen B., Ellestad, Myrvin H.   +2 more
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Socioeconomic Status Correlates with the Prevalence of Advanced Coronary Artery Disease in the United States [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Increasingly studies have identified socioeconomic factors adversely affecting healthcare outcomes for a multitude of diseases. To date, however, there has not been a study correlating socioeconomic details from nationwide databases on the ...
Bashinskaya, Bronislava, Coumans, Jean-Valery C E, Nahed, Brian Vala, Onuma, Oyere Kalu, Walcott, Brian Patrick   +4 more
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Sudden cardiac death in patients with ischemic heart failure undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting results from the STICH randomized clinical trial (Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure) [PDF]

, 2017
Background—The risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in patients with heart failure following CABG has not been examined in a contemporary clinical trial of surgical revascularization. This analysis describes the incidence, timing and clinical predictors of
Al-Khatib, Sana M., Carson, Peter E., Cleland, John G.F., Desvigne-Nickens, Patrice M., Feldman, Arthur M., Lang, Irene M., Lee, Kerry L., Nicolau, Jose C., Pokorney, Sean, Rao, Meena P., Romanov, Alexander, Rouleau, Jean L., Selzman, Craig H., She, Lilin, Siepe, Matthias, Stepinska, Janina, Sueta, Carla, Tungsubutra, Wiwun, Velazquez, Eric J., Yii, Michael   +19 more
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The role of Volatile Anesthetics in Cardioprotection: a systematic review. [PDF]

, 2012
This review evaluates the mechanism of volatile anesthetics as cardioprotective agents in both clinical and laboratory research and furthermore assesses possible cardiac side effects upon usage.
Applegate, Richard L, Krafft, Paul R, Leitzke, Arthur S, Tang, Jiping, Van Allen, Nicole R, Zhang, John H   +5 more
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