[Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair Following Axillo-femoral Bypass in a Patient with Stanford B Acute Aortic Dissection Accompanied by Abdominal Visceral Ischemia;Report of a Case].

A 60-year-old woman was transfer-red to the emergency department of our medical center with worsening chest and back pain. Computed tomography revealed Stanford type B aortic dissection. There was a false lumen from the distal arch to the abdominal aorta just above the celiac artery.

[Natural evolution of coronary artery ectasia after coronary artery bypass grafting].

Coronary artery aneurysm and ectasia, unusual angiographic findings, are considered as variant of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. A 49-year-old man whose right coronary artery ectasia had progressed to large aneurysm, accompanied by advanced obstructive coronary artery disease, 6 years after the initial coronary artery bypass grafting. It was treated with ligation of aneurysm and distal bypass grafting under cardiopulmonary bypass.

Argatroban as an alternative anticoagulant for patients with heparin allergy during coronary bypass surgery.

Although heparin allergy is a rare but well-documented entity, anticoagulation management for cardiac surgery in patients with the heparin allergy has not been established due to its rarity. Here we report a case that shows our anticoagulation strategy during a coronary bypass operation. A 67-year-old man with unstable angina pectoris developed an urticarial rash 10 h after the second exposure to heparin.

Washing of the residual solution of cardiopulmonary bypass circuit after coronary artery bypass grafting in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

A 76-year-old female with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura required coronary bypass grafting. Preoperative treatment with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin at a dose of 0.4 g/kg/day raised the platelet count from 57,000 to 110,000/microL.

Mediastinal irrigation with superoxidized water after open-heart surgery: the safety and pitfalls of cardiovascular surgical application.

Postoperative mediastinal infection after open-heart surgery via median sternotomy is a devastating complication. In this paper, we describe a simple method of irrigating the mediastinum using superoxidized water to prevent perioperative contamination. After mediastinal hemostasis was done, warm superoxidized water of more than 21 was uninterruptedly irrigated for 5 min immediately prior to sternal closure.