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Is there an optimal minimally invasive technique for left anterior descending coronary artery bypass?
... decades, left internal thoracic artery (LITA) bypass grafting has been recognised as the gold standard for left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) revas- cularization and its beneficial ...
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A Case Report of Wellens’ Syndrome: An Ominous Sign of Left Anterior Descending Artery Critical Stenosis and Impending Anterior Myocardial Infarction
... of left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery and impending anterior myocardial infarction in patients presenting with unstable ...infarction, left ventricular dysfunction, and even ...
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Coronary flow reserve in patients with left anterior descending artery-left internal mammary artery long patch plasty anastomosis: a prospective study
... [2]. Left anterior descending artery-left internal mammary artery (LAD-LIMA) long patch plasty anasto- mosis without endarterectomy is another technique ...
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The midterm outcome and MACE of robotically enhanced grafting of left anterior descending artery with left internal mammary artery
... LAD: Left anterior descending artery; LIMA: Left internal mammary artery; MACE: Major adverse cardiovascular event; MI: Myocardial infarction; MIDCAB: Minimal invasive coronary artery bypass; ...
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Mini OPCAB Mammary to Left Anterior Descending Artery
... the left mammary artery bypass to the left anterior descending ar- tery, and the results of this operation in the Benetti Foundation in the last 20 ...or left main, the age was more ...
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Deep Inspiration Breath Hold Reduces Dose to the Left Ventricle and Proximal Left Anterior Descending Artery during Radiotherapy for Left Sided Breast Cancers
... for left-sided lesions compared to right-sided had a higher rate of chest pain, coronary artery disease, and myocardial infarction with long-term follow up ...with left-sided lesions had abnormal stress ...
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Long term clinical efficacy of ostial stenting to the left anterior descending artery with deep caudal projection
... ostial left anterior descending artery (LAD) is challeng- ing, even in the era of drug-eluting stents, because the presence of ostial lesions is an independent predictor of in-segment restenosis ...
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Hyperdominant left anterior descending artery continuing across left ventricular apex as posterior descending artery coexistent with aortic stenosis
... the left ventricular branch to the inferior surface of left ventricle and thereafter continued as the dis- tal RCA without establishing any communication with the atretic proximal RCA (Fig ...5). ...
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Vortex formation and recirculation zones in left anterior descending artery stenoses: computational fluid dynamics analysis
... We have previously shown that a combination of specific anatomic parameters predispose to vulnerable plaque development, rupture of the plaque and consequent thrombosis (Katritsis et al., 2008; Katritsis et al., 2009). ...
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Impact of the left anterior descending artery wrapping around the left ventricular apex on cardiac mechanics in patients with normal coronary angiography
... Kobayashi et al. [9, 10] investigated the association be- tween anatomic features of LAD and patient’s outcome when presented with anterior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. They studied patients ...
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Localizing intramyocardially embedded left anterior descending artery during coronary bypass surgery: literature review
... description. The LAD is identified near the apex and exposed proximally by incising the muscle and fat together with Pott’s scissors. The lower scissor blade should be kept exactly on the anterior surface of the ...
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Long term follow up results of sequential left internal thoracic artery grafts on severe left anterior descending artery disease
... There was no operative mortality among the 49 patients operated during the study period. For the angiographi- cally controlled 41 patients, the mean aortic cross-clamp time was 79 ± 21,43 minutes and the mean cardiopul- ...
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Change in luminal diameter of the left internal thoracic artery anastomosed to the totally occluded left anterior descending coronary artery
... in left ventricular ejection fraction; the degree of change in native coronary artery disease was not taken into account in Group 2; the location of the anastomosis of the LITA and LAD was not considered; and the ...
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Differences in initial electrocardiographic findings between ST-elevation myocardial infarction due to left main trunk and left anterior descending artery lesions
... A standard 12-lead resting surface ECG was taken on hospital arrival (paper speed: 25 mm/s, calibration: 1 mV = 10 mm). This initial ECG which was recorded after hos- pital arrival and before emergency coronary ...
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Modelling of thrombin generation under flow in realistic left anterior descending geometries
... For the simulations under flow we calculated the parameters of TGA: the lag 266 time Tlag, the time until thrombin reaches its maximum concentration ttP, the maximum 267 concentration of[r] ...
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Extension of a Coronary Intramural Hematoma as a Complication of Early Percutaneous Coronary Intervention after Thrombolytic Therapy
... [8] M. Hirose, Y. Kobayashi, E. M. Kreps et al., “Luminal narrowing due to intramural hematoma shift from left anterior descending coronary artery to left circumflex artery,” Catheterization ...
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Regional Myocardial Blood Flow
... In the four subjects studied with normal coronary arteries, 85Kr clearance constants were found to be relatively uniform along the left anterior descending artery and over the anterior l[r] ...
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of the Effect of Plaques in the Left Coronary Artery
... in left coronary artery models, which were generated from a sample patient’s ...the left main stem and the left anterior descending (LAD) to produce at least 60% coronary ...the ...
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Imaging of all three coronary arteries by transthoracic echocardiography. an illustrated guide
... exact angiographic classification. The differences are most pronounced with regard to the RCA. As the origin of the circumflex coronary artery cannot always be localized, the left main coronary artery and the ...
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PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION BY BIORESORBABLE SCAFFOLDS: ABOUT TWO CASES AT THE CARDIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARISTIDE LE DANTEC HOSPITAL-SENEGAL.
... The Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) is a transitional support for the vessel, allowing it to heal and return to a natural state after resorption. We studied two patients who underwent percutaneous coronary ...
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