The risk factors for radial artery and saphenous vein graft occlusion are different.

To determine risk factors for radial artery and saphenous vein graft occlusion during long-term follow-up after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). From a cohort of 119 patients who had received a radial artery graft, 76 - of whom 55 also had at least one saphenous vein graft - underwent a preplanned direct angiography and anthropometric, biochemical, and endothelial function assessment 7.6-12.

Clinically induced hypothermia with cardiopulmonary support in a high-risk patient undergoing carotid endarterectomy.

Contralateral carotid occlusion increases the risk of stroke by hypoperfusion in patients undergoing carotid surgery. We present the case of a high-risk patient with crescendo cerebral ischemic events, for whom clinically induced hypothermia controlled by cardiopulmonary bypass was applied as a protective measure during carotid endarterectomy.

Direct angiography demonstrates equal 8-12 years patency rates of radial artery and saphenous vein grafts.

The benefits of coronary artery bypass surgery depend on lasting graft patency. To aid rational graft selection, the relative long-term merits of radial artery and saphenous vein grafts need to be determined by a gold standard method and with minimal clinically driven selection bias. The patency rates of various conduits were determined by direct angiography in 76 patients from a cohort of 119 undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting 7.

Arterial grafts do not counteract target vessel occlusion.

Objectives: Grafted, non-occluded coronary arteries might contribute substantially to the myocardial blood supply and serve as a basis for vascular collateralization which preserves the myocardium in the event of graft occlusion. Early studies indicated that grafting with saphenous vein, but not internal mammary arteries, accelerates coronary atherosclerosis. This has not been extensively studied for the radial artery, which like the internal mammary artery (IMA) is largely resistant to atherosclerosis.

Hypothermic cardiac arrest far away from the center providing rewarming with extracorporeal circulation.

A 41-year-old man suffered hypothermic cardiac arrest after water immersion and was transported to our university hospital by ambulance helicopter for rewarming on cardiopulmonary bypass. He resumed spontaneous cardiac activity 6 h 52 min after cardiac arrest and recovered completely.