This content is machine translated Coronary heart disease Well supplied with bypass Cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary heart disease (CHD), lead the statistics for the most common diseases in western industrialized countries and are the most common cause of death in Germany.
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Modern concept of coronary surgery Improving the gold standard Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with heart-lung machine is the gold standard of myocardial revascularization. The results of off-pump surgery and percutaneous intervention (PCI) should be measured against this. Bypass…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Stable coronary artery disease What are the indications for percutaneous intervention? Patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and indication for revascularization have a survival advantage after coronary bypass surgery. Primarily, arterial grafts should be used for revascularization. In patients with…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated PCI according to the SYNTAX study Reason to adjust indications? Treatment of main-stem stenosis and multivessel disease by PCI is equivalent to bypass surgery when the syntax score is low. The complexity of coronary stenoses is crucial for the therapeutic…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Surgical revascularization for CHD OPCAB technique not better than bypass surgery with extracorporeal circulation. The use of the heart-lung machine (HLM) is considered the worldwide standard for surgical myocardial revascularization in combination with cardiac immobilization. Inflammatory reactions due to larger foreign surface area may…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Occlusion therapy of intracranial aneurysms Endovascular and neurosurgical options. Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAB) is associated with high mortality and morbidity. After initial stabilization of the patient, neurosurgical and/or endovascular therapies must be used to eliminate the source of bleeding.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Percutaneous interventions or surgical revascularization? Comment on the 5-year results of the SYNTAX study. In the SYNTAX study, a total of 1800 patients were randomized in 85 hospitals in the United States and Europe. The two treatment groups were one interventional and the other…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Surgical treatment of VHF The Bern Ablation Algorithm Guideline recommendations for surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) vary, and often the success of treatment is closely tied to experience of the treating hospital, patient co-morbidities, and intensive interdisciplinary…
