The Feasibility and Early Results of Multivessel Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for All Comers.

Objectives: Cardiovascular surgery advancements have emerged with various minimally invasive approaches for treating multivessel coronary disease to improve outcomes and minimize the burden associated with conventional cardiac surgery. We present our clinical experience and minimally invasive coronary bypass techniques through minithoracotomy, which we apply without selection to patients who have decided to have elective surgery for multivessel isolated coronary artery disease.

Methods: It consists of 230 consecutive patients operated by the same team with this method between July 2020 and September 2022.

EMCAPT study: the effect of MitraClip treatment on the mitral annulus and left atrial appendage evaluation by transoesophageal echocardiography.

Introduction: Data on the change in mitral valve annulus diameter (MAD), and left atrial appendage (LAA) structure and function after transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) of the mitral valve in patients with secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) are lacking.

Aim: To evaluate the change in these parameters just after the clip insertion and its relationship with prognosis in the long term.

Material And Methods: A total of 50 patients (age: 71.

Surgical Revascularization of the Left Anterior Descending Artery with Multiple Failed Overlapping Stents.

Background: Multiple stents make standard coronary artery bypass techniques difficult. We describe our surgical approach, in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), in left anterior descending arteries (LAD) with multiple failed overlapping stents.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the data of six patients undergoing CABG with multiple failed overlapping stents in the LAD.

Activities of daily living, quality of life, social support and depression levels of elderly individuals in Turkish society.

Objective: To determine activities of daily living, quality of life, social support and depression levels of elderly individuals and the factors affecting each of these items.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted from August 2009 to June 2012 in Edirne, Turkey, and included elderly individuals over 60 years of age. Data was collected using a survey form, the Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, the European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions scale and the Geriatric Depression Scale.

[A late coronary aneurysm after sirolimus stent implantation which was treated with coronary graft stent].

Drug eluting stents are being used frequently because of their less restenotic properties. However, their effect on preventing neo-intimal hyperplasia may cause many adverse effects such as coronary artery aneurysm (CAA). We report a case that presented with a CAA which was the latest developed CAA after the implantation of drug eluting stents in literature so far.