Minimally invasive mini-thoracotomy access as a surgical method in state-of-the-art treatment of single-vessel coronary heart disease.

Aim To compare outcomes of two different surgical techniques of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for treating isolated left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery disease by full median sternotomy technique vs. minimally invasive approach via left anterior mini-thoracotomy. Methods This retrospective, observational study, which included 61 elective patients, was conducted at the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery of the Clinical Centre of the University of Sarajevo in the period from June 2019 to January 2022.

Deep Sternal Wound Infection After Open-heart Cardiac Surgery and Vacuum-Assisted Closure Therapy: a Single-center Study.

Background: Despite many advances in the prevention, of sternal wound infection, especially deep ones, cardiac surgery with median sternotomy, still presents a significant postoperative complication. Numerous operative and non-operative procedures should be used in treatment, there is a prolonged hospital stay and increased hospital costs treating this postoperative complication.

Objective: The present study was conducted aiming to determine the incidences, and risk factors, identify microbiology findings, and antibiotic therapy among patients with DSWI who underwent cardiac surgery with median sternotomy at our Clinic and VAC treatment.

Non Invasive Detection of Coronary Sinus Flow Changes Over Time After CABG.

Background: Coronary New blood in the vascular bed after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) may represent a turning point between ischemia and normal tissue nutrition. Its quantification can help to better understand coronary artery hemodynamics after revascularization.

Objective: Quantification of coronary sinus blood flow changes over time after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) using Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE).

Our Experiences in the Treatment of Anterior Chest Wall Infections (2015 - 2021).

Background: Sternotomy is a classical surgical procedure for approaching the heart and mediastinum. Sternotomy wound infections can be superficial or deep.

Objective: The aim of this study is to retrospectively evaluate the results of two treatments for deep sternal wound infection (DSWI), closed treatment (debridement, refixation and retrosternal irrigation) and open treatment (debridement, VAC therapy and then pectoral flap).

Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture After Acute Myocardial Reinfarction Due to In-Stent Thrombosis in COVID-19 Patient.

Background: Acute left ventricular free wall rupture (LVFWR) is a life-threatening complication of myocardial infarction that requires urgent intervention. Surgical repair has continued to be the treatment of choice. Studies suggest a posterolateral or inferior infarction is more likely to result in free wall rupture than an anterior infarction.

Surgical coronary revascularization on-pump versus off-pump in patients with stenosis of the main tree of the left coronary artery and carotid stenosis.

Objective: The aim of this study was to show perioperative complications of CABG procedure with and without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in patients with combined coronary and carotid disease.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective survey included patients with left main stenosis greater than 50% and carotid stenosis over 50%, who had undergone CABG without carotid endarterectomy at the BH Heart Centre, from May 2009 to May 2014. The patients were divided into two groups according to the surgical method used.

Importance of Full-Length Scan of Arterial Grafts in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.

Cardiac ischemia after coronary artery bypass grafting is often caused by graft occlusion. Short- and long-term graft patency is related to the quality of the surgical technique during harvesting and anastomosis. Transit time flow measurement is a recognized technique for the quality control of grafts but may not rule out structural abnormalities in the conduits, which can cause graft occlusion.

[Surgery approach of mediastinal benign teratomas in childhood].

Benign teratomas are benign tumors of germinative cells which originate from gonad tissue, and are primarily located in the gonads (ovary and testes). Less frequently they may appear extragonadally, mostly in mediastinum region, where they constitute 10% of all tumors in that area. Surgical aproach to treating these teratomas is completely removing mediastinal benign teratomas by anterolateral thoracotomy or transversal sternotomy.

[Foreign bodies in the thorax].

Background: Metallic foreign bodies in the lung could be recognized using radiography. Non-metallic foreign bodies make difficultes because they are not as dense as metals. The aim of this report was to present the case of non-metallic foreign bodies in the lung.

[The using doxycycline in procedure chemical pleurodesis of malignancy pleural effusion].

Unlabelled: Pleural effusion is acumulation of liquid in pleural space, wich caused primary of pleural diseases or secundary of systemic diseases.

Problem: Pleural effusion are the most frequently caused by malignancy and make worse poor condition of patients with malignancy. Pleural punction is insufficient metod for treatmen of malignancy pleural effusion.

A case of T/null anaplastic large cell lymphoma arising in lung.

Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a rare non-Hodgkin, T-cell lymphoma, representing only 2-3% of all lymphoid neoplasm's in adults according to World Health Organization (WHO). CD30 antigen-positive, large neoplastic cells characterize ALCL. We present here a 46-year-old male with pulmonary ALCL previously diagnosed with Hodgkin disease.