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Mymensingh Med J
January 2025
Dr Khondokar Shamim Shahriar Ziban Rushel, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Dhaka, Bangladesh; E-mail:
Heparin is an anticoagulant used invariably in all cardiac surgery. Heparin dosing and its reversal were determined by monitoring activated clotting time (ACT). Intermittent heparin dosing after initial bolus dose is widely practiced to maintain ACT level 200-300 seconds in Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (OPCAB).
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December 2024
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shanxi Cardiovascular Hospital (Institute), Shanxi Clinical Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Taiyuan, China.
Objective: This study compared the clinical efficacy of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the treatment of left main coronary artery and/or triple-vessel disease (LM and/or TVD).
Methods: We retrospectively enrolled 1484 consecutive patients with LM and/or TVD in Shanxi Cardiovascular Hospital from January 2015 to December 2022 and divided them into the OPCAB group (n = 583) and the PCI group (with second-generation drug-eluting stents) (n = 901). Propensity score matching was used for 316 equally matched pairs of patients in the groups.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
November 2024
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Curr Issues Mol Biol
November 2024
Almazov National Medical Research Centre, 197341 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) causes a systemic inflammatory response that can worsen patient outcomes. Off-pump surgery has been associated with a reduced inflammatory response. The precise mechanisms and the role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in this context are not fully understood.
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November 2024
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri.
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