Effects of single aortic clamping versus partial aortic clamping techniques on post-operative stroke during coronary artery bypass surgery.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of single-clamping and partial-clamping techniques on postoperative stroke during coronary artery bypass surgery.

Methods: Between December 2008 and December 2012, 2 000 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting in two hospitals were analysed. Post-operative neurological complications were analysed retrospectively in these patients.

Carotid and popliteal artery intima-media thickness in patients with poor oral hygiene and the association with acute-phase reactants.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether poor oral hygiene is associated with carotid and popliteal arterial intima-media thickness, which is one of the predictors of future progression of sub-clinical atherosclerosis, and highsensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) and fibrinogen levels.

Methods: A specialised dentist checked the patients and selected 550 patients during periodontal examinations, according to their oral hygiene. The patients had no history of atherosclerotic disease.

Decision making and results of coronary artery bypass grafting for patients with poor left ventricular function.

Background: The aim of this study is to determine the results of coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with a low ejection fraction. Between January 2007 and January 2011, 3556 consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting at the Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic at Sifa University Hospital, Izmir, Turkey, were analyzed retrospectively.

Methods: The patients were divided into 2 groups.

Temporary diabetes insipidus in 2 men after on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.

Many complications have been reported after cardiopulmonary bypass. A common physiologic change during the early postoperative period after cardiopulmonary bypass is increased diuresis. In patients whose urine output is increased, postoperative diabetes insipidus can develop, although reports of this are rare.

Left atrial myxoma and concomitant atherosclerotic coronary artery disease.

Here we describe the case of a 71-year-old female patient who was admitted to our department with acute coronary syndrome. Trans-thoracic echocardiography evaluation to assess left ventricular functions incidentally detected a left atrial mass attached to the inter-atrial septum together with a left ventricular segmental wall motion abnormality due to acute anterior myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography revealed diffuse coronary artery disease.