Category: Cardiac Surgery

In off pump CABG, heart is fixed using suction devices and it continues to beat while bypass grafting is done. In on pump CABG, the heart lung machine

CABG risk factors for adverse outcome: advanced age, female gender, previous cardiovascular events, left ventricular function, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes mellitus, chronic renal disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Multiple arterial grafts give better long term results – Canadian study A Canadian study [1] published in JAMA Cardiology has shown lower long term mortality, repeat revascularization, myocardial infarction and

LV aneurysm seen on left ventriculogram and near total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), which is poorly collateralized.

Ross procedure in adults Ross procedure (pulmonary autograft for aortic position) was used for aortic valve disease initially in children and later in adults. The pulmonary valve along

“Stent Creep” seen in Hancock bioprosthesis is due to inward bending of the stent struts.

Robotic repair of mitral valve is a promising minimally invasive surgical approach for both simple and complex mitral valve regurgitation, with excellent results.

Stentless bioprosthetic valve produces better exercise hemodynamics and greater regression of left ventricular hypertrophy when used in the aortic position.

Cone procedure for Ebstein's anomaly: detachment of leaflets, division of chordae, plication of annulus, rotation of leaflets and re-insertion of leaflets in neoannulus

Multiple muscular VSDs are also called swiss cheese VSD. Swiss cheese VSDs are difficult to close surgically.