Hyperkalemic or Low Potassium Cardioplegia Protects against Reduction of Energy Metabolism by Oxidative Stress by Hongting Diao, Haiwei Gu, Qin M. Chen

“…Open-heart surgery is often an unavoidable option for the treatment of cardiovascular disease and prevention of cardiomyopathy. Cardiopulmonary bypass surgery requires manipulating cardiac contractile function via the perfusion of a cardioplegic solution. …”
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O uso da vancomicina em pasta na hemostasia do esterno e profilaxia da mediastinite The use of the vancomycin paste for sternal hemostasis and mediastinitis prophylaxis by Marcus Vinicius Ferraz de Arruda, Domingo Marcolino Braile, Marcos Rogério Joaquim, Fabio Augusto Suzuki, Raquel Helena Alves

“…Patients underwent bypass surgery and vancomycin paste was used rather than bone wax in all cases. …”
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Evaluation of an automated safety surveillance system using risk adjusted sequential probability ratio testing by Matheny Michael E, Normand Sharon-Lise T, Gross Thomas P, Marinac-Dabic Danica, Loyo-Berrios Nilsa, Vidi Venkatesan D, Donnelly Sharon, Resnic Frederic S

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A total of 23,020 isolated adult coronary artery bypass surgery admissions performed in Massachusetts hospitals between January 1, 2002 and September 30, 2007 were retrospectively re-evaluated. …”
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A survey on the effect of oral vitamin C supplementation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery by Golaleh Karbasi, Foad Rahimi

“…The inclusion criteria were: being over 50 years old, undergoing cardiac surgery only and no other kinds of surgery, undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery for the first time, and no cardio-respiratory arrest during or after surgery. …”
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Combined Endovascular Antegrade and Direct Retrograde Carotid Artery Stenting for Chronic and Long Segment Common Carotid Artery Occlusion: Technical Note and Review of Literature by Shigeta MIYAKE, Yasunobu NAKAI, Taisuke AKIMOTO, Shun ISHIKAWA, Wakiko SARUTA, Hiroki KURODA, Satoru SHIMIZU, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO

“…Common carotid artery (CCA) occlusion (CCAO) is a rare cause of ischemic stroke and bypass surgery is the common treatment approach. However, safer alternatives should be developed to treat CCAO. …”
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Iron Deficiency in Obesity and after Bariatric Surgery by Geir Bjørklund, Massimiliano Peana, Lyudmila Pivina, Alexandru Dosa, Jan Aaseth, Yuliya Semenova, Salvatore Chirumbolo, Serenella Medici, Maryam Dadar, Daniel-Ovidiu Costea

“…However, gastric bypass surgery and sleeve gastrectomy can induce malabsorption and may accentuate ID. …”
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The results of standard echocardiography and use of Velocity Vector Imaging technology after surgical revascularization in patients with coronary artery disease by A. Yu. Vasiliev, E. B. Petrova, M. V. Fedorova, S. B. Efimova, P. N. Kordatov

“…The use of Velocity Vector Imaging after coronary bypass surgery shows a change in the function of myocardial fibers in the areas of coronary arteries, which is important in patients complaining of angina pain.…”
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Machine-Learning Techniques for Feature Selection and Prediction of Mortality in Elderly CABG Patients by Yen-Chun Huang, Shao-Jung Li, Mingchih Chen, Tian-Shyug Lee, Yu-Ning Chien

“…Coronary artery bypass surgery grafting (CABG) is a commonly efficient treatment for coronary artery disease patients. …”
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On-Pump Beating Myocardial Revascularization in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome by Behrouz Motahedi, Mahdi Kahrom

“…Three patients (2.4%) died during recovery in the ICU due to acute cardiac failure.Conclusion: On-pump beating CABG (OPBCABG) is an effective strategy with improved hospital outcome and can be a good alternative to conventional CABG and off-pump cardiac bypass surgery in acute coronary syndrome (ACS).…”
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In-hospital stroke in patients after cardiac surgery or invasive interventions by P. A. Filimonova, L. I. Volkova, A. M. Alasheev, A. V. Mikhaylov, E. A. Grichuk

“…Stroke following open-heart surgery was recorded after combined correction (1.4%), two-valve replacement surgery (1.98%), aortic and mammary coronary artery bypass grafting under extracorporeal circulation (1%), and beating heart bypass surgery (0.25%). The severity of stroke and the degree of disability did not differ in patients after invasive cardiac and open-heart surgeries.Conclusion. …”
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First case report of neoadjuvant gemcitabine and S-1 for locally advanced unresectable duodenal adenocarcinoma by Jiro Kimura, Kenta Sui, Motoyasu Tabuchi, Takahiro Murokawa, Shinya Sakamoto, Jun Iwata, Manabu Matsumoto, Takehiro Okabayashi

“…Therefore, she underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy using gemcitabine and S-1 after bypass surgery. After six chemotherapy cycles, the tumor significantly reduced in size. …”
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Retrograde CTO-PCI Using an Internal Thoracic Bypass Graft Segment in a Patient with Acute Inferior ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock by Ungureanu C, Colletti G, Blaimont M, Avran A

“…As PCI of bypass grafts may be associated with higher risks and lower procedural success rates, in patients with a history of previous coronary artery surgery, PCI directed at revascularization of the native vessels should be considered, but this may be difficult in the setting of a chronically occluded artery.Case Presentation: A patient with a history of multivessel coronary artery disease and a chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the right coronary artery (RCA) requiring arterial bypass surgery, presented with an acute inferior STEMI and cardiogenic shock. …”
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Preoperative risk factors associated with left ventricular dysfunction after bariatric surgery by Lisa M. D. Grymyr, Gunnar Mellgren, Adrian McCann, Eva Gerdts, Klaus Meyer, Saied Nadirpour, Johan Fernø, Bjørn G. Nedrebø, Dana Cramariuc

“…In the Bariatric Surgery on the West Coast of Norway study, 75 patients (44 ± 10 years, body mass index [BMI] 41.5 ± 4.7 kg/m2) were prospectively evaluated by echocardiography and inflammatory proteins (high-sensitivity C-reactive protein [hsCRP], serum amyloid A [SAA] and calprotectin) before and one year after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. LV mechanics was assessed by the midwall shortening (MWS) and global longitudinal strain (GLS). …”
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Eculizumab Use in Scleroderma Renal Crisis With Thrombotic Microangiopathy: A Case Report by Claire Trivin-Avillach, Aala Jaberi, Joel M. Henderson, Laurence H. Beck, Jr., Jean Francis

“…A Black woman in her 40s with past medical history significant for obesity treated with Roux-en-Y bypass surgery and a history of Raynaud’s phenomenon, presented with acute pulmonary edema secondary to severe malignant hypertension and critically accelerated acute kidney injury, with evidence of systemic microangiopathic hemolytic anemia in the setting of clinical suspicion of systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma. …”
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DIAGNOSTICS AND INTENSIVE CARE OF HEART FAILURE IN PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT SURGERY WITH ARTIFICIAL CIRCULATION by V.I. Cherniy, Y.V. Kurylenko

“…The possibility of using phasography for monitoring of myocardial condition in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery has been investigated.…”
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Bone marrow stem cell injection for the treatment of critical limb ischemia by Shunya Shindo

“…Vascular reconstruction remains a treatment of choice for critical limb ischemia. Bypass surgery has been accepted as the most effective therapy to achieve increase of blood flow and cure the ischemic symptoms. …”
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Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus by B. G. Adleyba, G. V. Gavrilov, A. V. Stanishevsky, B. V. Gaydar, D. V. Svistov, V. Yu. Lobzin, K. A. Kolmakova

“…The detection of biomarkers can be used in addition to brain MRI and invasive techniques to improve the accuracy of diagnosis, as well as to predict the efficiency of bypass surgery, but provided that they are comprehensively assessed.Conclusion. …”
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Original method for restoring the continuity of the lobar duct of the liver in case of iatrogenic damage by R. G. Avanesyan, M. P. Korolev, M. Yu. Pletnev, S. N. Sabri, T. V. Amirkhanyan

“…The developed method of minimally invasive restoration of continuity and patency of the intersected and excised hepatic duct is an alternative to the traditional reconstructive biliodigestive bypass surgery. Long-term frame drainage of the bile duct in the area of damage allows forming sufficient diameter for an unobstructed passage of bile.…”
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The Successful Surgical Treatment of a Giant True Left Ventricular Aneurysm: a Case Report by Y. B. Brand, M. K. Mazanov, E. N. Ostroumov, M. A. Sagirov, N. I. Kharitonova, M. V. Chumakov, D. V. Chernyshev

“…The patient underwent resection of a left ventricular aneurysm, endoventricular plasty (Dor procedure), coronary artery bypass surgery of the circumflex artery and obtuse marginal branch of the left coronary artery.The patient was discharged in satisfactory condition on day 14 after surgery. …”
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Factors influencing preoperative stress response in coronary artery bypass graft patients by Wulf Hinnerk, Adams Hans A, Kahl Martin, Schwarz Udo, Geldner Götz, Morin Astrid M, Eberhart Leopold HJ

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Various potential risk factors that could impact the humoral stress response before induction of anaesthesia were recorded in 84 males undergoing coronary aortic bypass surgery, and were entered into a stepwise linear regression analysis. …”
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