Current Diagnosis and Therapeutic Approach of Functional Mitral Regurgitation by Prima Almazini

“…While the effect of surgery on improving mortality in patients with functional mitral regurgitation is not established yet, recent guidelines recommend considering surgery for patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass surgery or other cardiac procedures.…”
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Candida associated infra-inguinal prosthetic vascular graft infection: A case report by Ahmet Deniz Kaya, Esma Nur Metin Kaya, Ihsan Alur

“…We performed femoro-popliteal bypass by using great saphenous vein after removal of infected graft. In peripheric bypass surgery performed with PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) graft, growth of Candida albicans in graft material is a rare condition and this situation has a high mortality rate. …”
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Treatment of the refractory angina in the very elderly patients and centenarians by O.A. Yepanchintseva, O.P. Nadorak, Yu.A. Borkhalenko, S.I. Mashkovska, O.J. Zharinov

“…The main reason for referral to the physician in this case was angina persisting even after repeated endovascular interventions and coronary artery bypass surgery. In addition, despite antiarrhythmic therapy, frequent episodes of atrial fibrillation were observed. …”
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Impaired Myocardial Perfusion from Persistent Mammary Side Branches: A Role for Functional Imaging and Embolization by Michael S. Firstenberg, Gregory Guy, Charles Bush, Subha V. Raman

“…The diagnosis and management of ischemic symptoms in patients after coronary artery bypass surgery can be challenging. It has been hypothesized that persistent branches of the internal mammary artery can divert flow from the left anterior descending artery and cause symptoms. …”
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Left Circumflex Artery Rupture with Left Atrial Tamponade and Functional Mitral Stenosis by Weiting Huang, Khaled Mohamed Emadeldin Moheb Hammad, Victor Tar Toong Chao, Khung Keong Yeo

“…The growth in percutaneous transluminal devices has enabled operators to tackle more complex, native, and post-bypass surgery anatomy. However, complications such as coronary artery dissection, coronary perforation, retrograde aortic dissection, arrhythmias, and acute coronary syndrome still occur with resulting mortality rates of up to 4.2% in complex interventions. …”
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Is There a Metabolic Program in the Skeletal Muscle of Obese Individuals? by Joseph A. Houmard, Walter J. Pories, G. Lynis Dohm

“…Weight loss via gastric bypass surgery can “turn off” and/or correct components of this metabolic program as insulin sensitivity is restored; however, the impairment in FAO in skeletal muscle remains evident. …”
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Bariatric surgery in elderly patients by Alexander V. Smirnov, Vladimir R. Stankevich, Ekaterina S. Danilina, Vladislav I. Sychev, Evgeniya M. Voronets, Vladimir I. Sharobaro, Nikolay A. Solovyev, Yury V. Ivanov, Robert I. Khabazov

“…All the patients underwent only two types of surgery — laparoscopic longitudinal resection and laparoscopic Roux gastric bypass surgery. All the patients of the older age group underwent personalized selection for surgical treatment, screening procedures were arranged in order to detect the senile asthenia syndrome and, retrospectively, to stratify them using the GeriBari prognostic scale. …”
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Repeated operations in patients with unsatisfactory results of celiac artery compression syndrome treatment by Z. Wan, A. M. Ignashov, I. P. Dudanov, V. N. Khirmanov, D. N. Doynikov, A. N. Morozov, A. Yu. Gichkin, S. D. Migashchuk, D. V. Kachalov, Yu. A. Ignashov, V. V. Ahmetov

“…Of 28 patients, re-revascularization of the celiac artery was successful as a result of open decompression in 7 out of 8, bypass surgery in 9 out of 10 and balloon angioplasty and with stenting in two out of 7. …”
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Treatment and Imaging Modalities of Giant Coronary Aneurysms Resulting from Kawasaki Disease and Presenting as Acute Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction by Mahmood Abu Akel, Yaron M. Hellman, Shtiwi Sawaed, Erez Sharoni, Amnon Eitan, Moshe Y. Flugelman

“…The patient underwent coronary bypass surgery and is asymptomatic at follow-up.…”
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Bile Leak following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy due to Perforated Duodenal Ulcer in Patient with Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass by Amanda M. Marsh, Ayman Almousa, Thomas Genuit, David Forcione, Karin Blumofe

“…Perforated ulcers of the excluded stomach or duodenum are exceedingly rare in patients who have undergone Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. The diagnosis of perforated ulcer after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass remains challenging as there is often absence of free air or contrast extravasation from the biliopancreatic limb. …”
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Experience of the introduction of surgery with artificial circulation in the regional department of vascular surgery by Yu.S. Spirin

“…Organization of the master classes, training courses and coronary bypass surgery procedures on the pig hearts made possible to develop regional cardiac surgery without long-term interruption of the usual process and without influence upon quality of the work. …”
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The Auscultation of a Carbon Dioxide Embolization Event during Endoscopic Vein Harvest by Erik Strauss, Bradley Taylor, Michael Mazzeffi, Kenichi Tanaka, Patrick Odonkor

“…Endoscopic vein harvest in preparation for coronary artery bypass surgery has become a preferred method of procuring saphenous vein. …”
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Fallacies and Possible Remedies of the SYNTAX Score by Yong-Ming He, Li Shen, Jun-Bo Ge

“…The Evaluation of Xience Everolimus-Eluting Stent Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Effectiveness of Left-Main Revascularization (EXCEL) and Nordic-Baltic-British left main revascularization (NOBLE) studies are the largest international randomized studies so far, comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) in the treatment of left main coronary artery disease. …”
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Effect of resistive-endurance exercises on myocardial tissue creatine kinase isoenzyme, IL-6 and IL-10 serum changes in male cardiovascular patients by Alireza Zamanı, Bijan Rajaeıan, Saeid Rostamı

“…The patients were underwent bypass surgery or angioplasty balloon. After, patients filled demographic questionnaire and tests were performed to determine risk factors. …”
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Arterial Thrombosis in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Two-Case Reports and Review of the Literature by C. Konin, J. B. Anzouan-Kacou, A. Essam N'loo

“…He underwent a femorotibial bypass surgery and anticoagulant treatment. The outcome was good with reappearance of local heat of the limb and tibial pulses. …”
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Penetrating right ventricular injury following a single gunshot to the left flank in Iraq: a case report by Zryan Salar Majeed, Yad N. Othman, Razhan K. Ali

“…It was repaired without the need for cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. After a few days in the hospital, the patient was discharged home. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Whole Body and Hepatic Insulin Resistance Using Indices from Oral Glucose Tolerance Test in Morbidly Obese Subjects with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Kamran Qureshi, Ronald H. Clements, Fahad Saeed, Gary A. Abrams

“…Methods. 113 morbidly obese, nondiabetic subjects who underwent gastric bypass surgery and intraoperative liver biopsy were included in the study. …”
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Retrograde recanalization of chronic coronary occlusion by S.М. Furkalo

“…Thus, potential candidates for retrograde recanalization of CТO are рatients after failed attempt of recanalization with clear indications and motivated to implement PCI; with refractory angina and CТO of native coronary arteries after CABG; single-vessel coronary artery disease (right coronary artery, RCA or left anterior disease, LAD) with preserved left ventricular function and preserved kidney; patients with multivessel disease and related comorbidity making coronary artery bypass surgery impossible. Since 2007, 102 retrograde recanalizations of CТO were performed with total efficiency 64.3 %. …”
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Robotically-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting by Thierry A. Folliguet, Alain Dibie, François Philippe, Fabrice Larrazet, Michel S. Slama, François Laborde

“…This report describes our experience using the da Vinci system for coronary artery bypass surgery. Methods. Patients requiring single-or-double vessel revascularization were eligible. …”
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An Algorithm to Analyze Cost Heterogeneity using Counterfactual Scenarios in Endovascular versus Open Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Predicting Costs for Subsequent Patients by Christopher A. Jones, Peter W. Callas, Robert W. Everett, Richard A. Galbraith, Richie Spitsberg, Jeffrey J. Petrozzino, Michael J. DeSarno, Andrew C. Stanley

“…**Results:** Significant predictors of UQC for OPEN repair procedures were: history of treated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), previous bypass surgery, transfer from hospital and age >70 (area under receiver operating curve [ROC] = 0.726). …”
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