Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Young Adults.

Objective: To evaluate the risk factors for early onset of coronary artery disease (CAD) and assess the preoperative presentation, perioperative course, survival, and short-term complications after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) in patients aged 45 years or younger undergoing CABG.

Study Design: Observational study. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, from December 2020 to January 2021.

Unusual location of aortic root abscess as a complication of bicuspid aortic valve infective endocarditis by a rare organism.

A man in his 50s with diabetes, hypertension and history of multiple percutaneous coronary interventions presented with 3 weeks of fever and worsening shortness of breath. There was clinical suspicion of infective endocarditis with raised infective parameters. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed abnormally thickened, bicuspid aortic valve with suspicion of paravalvular aortic root abscess.