Effect of milrinone on short-term outcome of patients with myocardial dysfunction undergoing coronary artery bypass graft: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Myocardial dysfunction needing inotropic support is a typical complication after on-pump cardiac surgery. In this study, we evaluate the effect of milrinone on patients with ventricular dysfunction undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).

Methods: Seventy patients with impaired left ventricular function [left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 35%] undergoing on-pump CABG were enrolled.

Ability of amiodarone and propranolol alone or in combination to prevent post-coronary bypass atrial fibrillation.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the best prophylaxis for AF prior to CABG. In this double-blind randomized study, 240 consecutive patients underwent elective CABG.

Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor of the pericardium: a case report.

A large pericardial mass, which was found to be a perivascular epithelioid cell tumor, was excised from a 20-year-old man. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this distinctive neoplasm as a pericardial mass.

Pericardial PEComa: echocardiographic features.

The patient was a 19 year old man referred to our center due to progressive effort dyspnea and left sided pleuritic chest pain for 1 month. Echocardiographic examination showed a posteriorly located, giant, well demarcated mass, that compresses the left atrium. It was encased by moderate pericardial effusion.