On-pump beating-heart versus conventional coronary artery bypass grafting for revascularization in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction: early outcomes.

Background: We sought to evaluate the effects of on-pump beating-heart versus conventional coronary artery bypass grafting techniques requiring cardioplegic arrest in patients with coronary artery disease with left ventricular dysfunction.

Methods: We report the early outcomes associated with survival, morbidity and improvement of left ventricular function in patients with low ejection fraction who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting between August 2009 and June 2012. Patients were separated into 2 groups: group I underwent conventional coronary artery bypass grafting and group II underwent an on-pump beating-heart technique without cardioplegic arrest.

Mitral valve and coronary artery bypass surgeries 13 years after pneumonectomy for lung cancer.

We successfully performed coronary artery bypass grafting and mitral valve replacement in a 72-year-old man who had undergone a left pneumonectomy 13 years previously due to a malignant mass. The patient was admitted to our clinic with symptoms of dyspnoea, palpitations, chest pain and fatigue. He was diagnosed with mitral valve disease and two-vessel coronary artery disease, as seen from echocardiography and catheterisation studies.

The relationship between arteriovenous fistula success and inflammation.

Background: Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is the most important vascular access method for hemodialysis (HD). In this study, the relationship between AVF success and inflammation in patients who had HD due to end-stage renal failure (ESRF) was investigated.

Material And Method: In the study, a total of 658 patients, who started HD for ESRF, were evaluated retrospectively.

Is administration of preoperative angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors important for renal protection after cardiac surgery?

Objective: There are various reasons for renal dysfunction after cardiac surgery; however, activation of the renin-angiotensin system has an important role following cardiac surgery. We investigated the effect of preoperative angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on renal functions after cardiovascular surgery.

Material-methods: Three hundred sixty-six patients awaiting elective cardiac surgery were allocated to two groups, namely the treatment group, comprising the ACE inhibitor group (n = 186), and the control group, which was without ACE inhibitor (n = 180).

Basilic vein transposition fistulas versus prosthetic bridge grafts in patients with end-stage renal failure.

Background: Basilic vein transposition fistulas (BVTFs) and prosthetic bridge grafts (PBGs) provide good vascular access for hemodialysis. To evaluate the patency and complication rates after arteriovenous fistula formation, a concurrent series of patients was reviewed.

Methods: Between September 2003 and September 2009, 147 hemodialysis access procedures were performed in 147 consecutive patients at Van Research and Training Hospital and Yuzuncu Yil University Hospital, Van, Turkey.