The authors report a case of recurrent left anterior descending artery rupture during coronary interventions in a 70-year-old man. Coronary artery rupture was treated successfully by percutaneous ...coronary stent-graft implantation. Based on this experience, the authors advise against repeat angioplasty of a coronary artery which has ruptured during a prior intervention. Membrane-covered stents should be the first choice in the treatment of life-threatening coronary artery rupture. (Int J Cardiovasc Intervent 2003; 5: 88-91)
Thromboelastography is a method which is used experimentally since 1948. Since the end of the eighties it is experiencing a certain revival also in clinical medicine. The submitted case-record ...presents this technique as a very useful aid in the differential diagnosis of postoperative haemorrhagic conditions in cardiosurgery. Its application can facilitate aimed treatment of some typical disorders of haemocoagulation.
The authors present an account on the first phase of application of minimally invasive techniques of revascularization of the heart into clinical practice at their department. Since December 1994 to ...the end of January 1995 in selected 15 patients from a total of 240 patients with IHD 16 arterial and 8 venous grafts were sutured on the beating heart from median sternotomy. None of the patients died and none need reoperation. All patients are free from anginous complaints after operation and their clinical condition is satisfactory. Revascularization of the heart by means of arterial and venous grafts on the beating heart from median sternotomy is a technically reproducible method which enables us to elaborate further minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of IHD. The presented paper is a preliminary communication without claims of statistical validity of the achieved results.
