Marcelo Muñoz was waiting in line at a festival food truck, eyeing a batch of fried churros, when inspiration struck – an ...

Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting (MIDCAB) involves a small anterior left thoracotomy incision of 4-6 cm. Because of this, there are considerable benefits over the conventional ...

The Arterial Grafting International Consortium (ATLANTIC) Alliance is an international writing group on coronary surgery. In January 2018, a comprehensive search to identify studies that evaluated the ...

Introduction. The optimal invasive treatment of coronary artery disease has been debated for years,1–8 and new arguments for both coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary ...

Coronary artery bypass grafting with an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene graft. Ann Thorac Surg. (1999) 67:1240–4. doi: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00168-X. PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google ...

Objective Perioperative stroke associated with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a catastrophic event. Identification of patients at risk and reduction of its incidence remains of high ...

Surgical ablation performed during coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with preexisting atrial fibrillation is associated with a median survival benefit of 4.4 months (7.82 vs. 7.46 years ...

ABSTRACT. Objective: To assess how efficient the local team attained skills are after several visits made by international missions in respect to number of coronary artery bypass grafting surgery ...

Background— Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a potential noninvasive diagnostic tool to detect coronary artery bypass graft stenosis, but its value in clinical practice remains to be established.