[Comparative Clinical Biochemical Assessment of the State of Myocardium After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Performed Using Various Techniques].

We compared parameters of the state of myocardium after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) performed according to the following techniques - with complete cardiopulmonary bypass (CABS-CBP), beating heart bypass grafting with parallel normothermic perfusion (CABS-BH-NP), and beating heart bypass grafting (CABS-BH). Patients (n=100, 86% men, 14% women, age 56-69 years) were divided into 3 groups with comparable sex, age, state of the myocardium, and EUROSCORE surgical risk. In group 1 patients (n=35) we used CABS-CHB, in group 2 (n=32) - CABS-BH-NP, in group 3 (n=33) - CABS-BH.

[Comparative Clinical Biochemical Assesment of the State of Mycardium After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Performed Using Various Techniques].

We compared parameters of the state of myocardium after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) performed according to the following techniques--with complete cardiopulmonary bypass (CABS-CBP), beating heart bypass grafting with parallel normothermic perfusion (CABS- BH-NP), and beating heart bypass grafting (CABS-BH). Patients (n = 100, 86% men, 14% women, age 56-69 years) were divided into 3 groups with comparable sex, age, state of the myocardium, and EUROSCORE surgical risk. In group 1 patients (n = 35) we used CABS-CHB, in group 2 (n = 32)--CABS-BH-NP, in group 3 (n = 33)--CABS-BH.

[Diagnosis and effective surgical treatment of constrictive pericarditis].

Constrictive pericarditis is a rare and severe disease. Timely and correct differential diagnosis of this pathology facilitates choice of necessary tactics of treatment and thus improve prognosis and quality of life. In this paper we present clinical case report of a patient with constrictive pericarditis.

[Expert assessment of operations' complexity and its interrelationship with lethal outcomes and duration of treatment].

The aim of the work was to carry out expert assessment of complexity of operations and to study interrelationship of the average score of complexity of the interventions with lethal outcome and duration of treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (exemplified by comparison with the outcomes of operations on cardiac valves performed in 2009 in the setting of artificial circulation in adult patients). Complexity was assessed by a total of 13 cardiovascular surgeons specialized in operations aimed at correcting valve defects (4 of them were from the A. N.

Antegrade and retrograde cardioplegia with different reperfusion techniques in patients with multiple coronary artery lesions.

To evaluate the effectiveness of retrograde cardioplegia and reperfusion, a total of 266 patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery between Nov 1987 to Dec 1989 were divided into three groups depending on the method of cardioplegic fluid delivery and reperfusion. In group I (80 patients) antegrade cardioplegia and reperfusion was used. In group II (98 patients) antegrade and retrograde cardioplegia and antegrade reperfusion was used while in group III antegrade and retrograde cardioplegia and retrograde reperfusion was used.