Topics covered include SVG outcomes over the last 20 years, elimination of SVGs, best practices in SVG harvesting for CABG, and more.
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Coronary disease
May 2, 2024
In this video, the authors show their surgical technique for reimplantation of a right coronary artery with an anomalous origin from the aorta in a patient with ischemia with no obstructed coronary arteries.
April 24, 2024
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 fraction (EF) less than or equal to 35 percent, and reviews findings from Alzahrani et al.
April 24, 2024
Watch Professor Faisal Bakeen demonstrate his method for LIMA artery and radial artery harvest at the Cleveland Clinic.
April 19, 2024
This is a detailed video of the surgical technique for LIMA to LAD and RIMA to RCA utilizing a total arterial anaortic off-pump approach.
April 16, 2024
CTSNet Global Editor Emily Farkas spoke with Professor Rawn Salenger about his strategy for achieving a low perfusion rate when performing CABG surgery.
April 12, 2024
This video demonstrates the surgical technique of radial artery to posterior descending artery anastomosis during anaortic off-pump coronary artery grafting.
April 10, 2024
In preclinical studies, microplastics and nanoplastics have been found to be a potential risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, there is a lack of clinical evidence that this risk extends to humans. The authors conducted a prospective, multicenter, observational study involving patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy.
April 5, 2024
In this video, we demonstrate an off-pump RA to OM anastomosis performed with a side-to-side technique.
April 3, 2024
This article investigates long term survival of total arterial coronary artery bypass grafting comparatively in a male versus female population.