Category: Cardiac Surgery
Cardiac Surgery
One year after CABG, there was no significant difference between on pump and off pump CABG in repeat revascularisation, QoL or neurocognitive function
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Angiography and Interventions
Radial Artery Patency Study had shown that complete occlusion was more frequent with SVG than radial artery grafts at one year after CABG
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Cardiac Surgery
ROOBY Trial found that off pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) was less effective than on pump CABG .
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Cardiac Surgery
Closed mitral valvotomy (CMV) was the closed heart procedure being done to open up a narrowed mitral valve (mitral stenosis) in the yester years.
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Cardiac Surgery
Jatene's procedure is arterial switch operation, a corrective surgery for d-transposition of great arteries (d-TGA).
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Cardiac Surgery
Early repair of type A aortic dissection complicated by coma has been reported to improve neurological outcome.
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Cardiac Surgery
Surgical procedures for atrial fibrillation are called Cox maze procedure in recognition of the pioneering work done by Cox and his colleagues
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Cardiac Surgery
Ross procedure or living pulmonary autograft is an alternative for young and middle aged individuals requiring aortic valve replacement.
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Cardiac Surgery
Double internal mammary grafts are superior to LIMA plus radial artery grafts. Radial artery has lower capacity to release nitric oxide.
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Cardiac Surgery
European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) has been developed to assess the risk of patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
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