Sepsis in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery: problem description.

Background: In spite of the advances in sepsis diagnosis and treatment in the last years, the morbidity and mortality are still high.

Objective: To assess the prevalence, in-hospital evolution and prognosis of patients that presented sepsis in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery.

Methods: This is a prospective study that included patients (n = 7,332) submitted to cardiac surgery (valvular or coronary) between January 1995 and December 2007.

Coronary artery bypass grafting using both internal mammary arteries in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Objective: We sought to describe the use of both internal mammary arteries (IMA) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) submitted to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

Method: Between January of 1995 to August of 2005, 4.569 patients received isolated CABG in our institution, of these, 1.