Triple bypass surgery is a type of heart surgery in which three blood vessels from elsewhere in the body are used to replace damaged vessels in the heart. The purpose of the procedure is to improve blood flow. A triple bypass is usually recommended only when other less invasive treatments hav...
Triple bypass surgery is typically performed viaan open heart procedure— your surgeon will cut your chest open with a vertical incision to access the heart. Surgery typically lasts between three to eight hours, depending on the extent of the disease. The surgery can be performed "on-pump" or...
the LITA has become the standard treatment for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Barner reported the use of bilateral ITA (BITA) for coronary bypass almost 30 years ago, but was not widely accepted initially (2,3). Tector and others are credited with introducing composite ...
Aortic cross-clamp, cardiopulmonary bypass, and operative times averaged 148 min, 194 min and 352 min, respectively. Ventilation time was 30 hours and ICU stay averaged 3 days. Myocardial infarction was not observed. Chest tube drainage was 330 ml, and 2 patients (10%) needed re-exploration ...
approach, which reduces the recovery time for a patient as well as reducing the complexity of the surgical procedure. As such, the higher-risk portions of a typical maze procedure, namely a sternotomy, cardiopulmonary bypass, and/or aortic cross-clamping or cardiac arrest, are no longer ...
lung cancer; lung surgery; minimally invasive surgery; sublobar resection; video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; enhanced recovery after surgery; immunotherapy; targeted therapy 1. Introduction: State of the Art of Lung Cancer in 2023 Lung cancer was the second ...