Surgical myocardial revascularization debuted in the cardiovascular surgical practice late, just after two decades of experience in congenital heart disease and valve dysfunctions. The landmark of ...

His contributions include, but are not limited to, being the first to perform: carotid endarterectomy (1953), excision and homograft replacement of an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta (1954), ...

also performed the state’s first permanent pacemaker implant in 1961 and first aortocoronary bypass surgery. Parsonnet joined the board of the New Jersey Symphony in 1986 and became chairman in ...

Abstract—Aortocoronary saphenous vein graft disease, with its increasing clinical sequelae, presents an important and unresolved dilemma in cardiological practice. During the 1st month after bypass ...

Background This study examines trends and sex differences in characteristics of patients referred for bypass graft surgery to identify factors associated with operative morbidity and mortality.

“Anatomically, the [radial artery] is usually constructed as an aortocoronary graft,” said Fremes in an ... When using the radial artery to bypass a severe blockage, this is less likely to result in ...

TCT 764: An uncrossable lesion of ostial flash chronic total occlusion in right coronary artery in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: debulking atherectomy successfully performed to triple ...

Background: Currently, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are commonly used in the treatment of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease. But the optimal ...

Saphenous veins and radial arteries were harvested with an open technique, and sequential or separate aortocoronary bypass grafting was performed in the remaining coronary arteries. A transit-time ...