Bone Remodeling Markers in Assessing of Sternal Reparative Regeneration in Patients With Carbohydrate Metabolism Disorders After Coronary Bypass Surgery.

Aim      To study time-related changes in bone remodeling markers in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and disorders of carbohydrate metabolism (CM). Also, a possibility was studied of using these markers for evaluation of breast bone reparative regeneration in early and late postoperative periods following coronary bypass (CB).Materials and methods           This study included 28 patients with IHD and functional class II-III exertional angina after CB.

[Functionality of mammary-coronary bypass grafts according to the data of intraoperative flowmetry].

Improvement of surgical treatment for ischaemic heart disease is one of the main trends in modern medicine. After the operation of coronary bypass grafting, further functioning of blood flow in the grafts largely depends upon its domination over the native blood flow in the target coronary arteries. Therefore, intraoperative diagnosis of functional competence of coronary bypass grafts by means of flowmetry is currently of special importance.

Distal aortic remodelling after the standard and the elongated frozen elephant trunk procedure.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate abdominal aortic remodelling after the standard compared with the elongated frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique in patients with aortic dissection.

Methods: Twenty-six patients underwent surgery and were randomized into 2 groups. Fifteen patients were treated with the standard FET technique.

[Single-centre experience with implantation of the 'E-vita open plus' hybrid stent graft].

Hybrid technologies appear to have been gaining ground in surgery of the thoracic aorta. The present study was aimed at assessing the immediate clinical outcomes of surgical treatment of diseases of the thoracic aorta by means of the 'E-vita open plus' hybrid stent graft. The 'E-vita open plus' hybrid stent graft was implanted to 18 patients.