Impact of Diabetes in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Within 48 Hours.

Background: Diabetic patients with coronary artery disease may benefit from elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. It is unknown whether this merit is transferable to patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) undergoing surgery.

Method: A total of 1,427 patients underwent CABG within 48 hours of being diagnosed with AMI at the current institution between 2001 and 2019.

Long-term follow-up of patients with complex coronary artery disease treated with minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass.

Background: Patients with complex coronary artery disease (CAD) may benefit from surgical myocardial revascularization but weighing the risk of peri-operative complications against the expected merit is difficult. Minimally invasive direct artery bypass (MIDCAB) procedures are less invasive, provide the prognostic advantage of operative revascularization of the left anterior descending artery and may be integrated in hybrid strategies. Herein, the outcomes between patients with coronary 1-vessel disease (1-VD) and patients with 2-VD and 3-VD after MIDCAB procedures were compared in this single-center study.

Progressive cervical tumour in an HIV-patient: giant pseudoaneurysm of the carotid artery: a case report.

Background: Aneurysms of the extracranial carotid artery are a rare entity and correspond to <1% of all arterial aneurysms.

Case Summary: A 58-year-old male with known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection presented in the emergency department with a massive cervical tumour on the right side of the neck and a severe occipital pain. Contrast computed tomography demonstrated a pseudoaneurysm of the proximal right internal carotid artery (ICA).

Coronary artery bypass surgery in diabetic patients - risk factors for sternal wound infections.

The incidence of sternal wound infections (SWI) after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) as reported worldwide is low. However, it is associated with significant increase of postoperative mortality and treatment costs. The major risk factors discussed are diabetes mellitus and bilateral IMA harvesting of the internal mammary artery.

Successful six-year follow-up of a sutureless device for proximal anastomoses in a severely calcified ascending aorta.

Background: Aortic connector devices (ACDs) for proximal anastomoses of vein grafts during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have widely failed during recent years. As a consequence ACDs have been withdrawn from the market.

Method: We report on an 81-year-old patient who had undergone CABG for three-vessel disease.