Objectives. We sought to examine, angiographically, the long-term fate of a large number of
mainly venous coronary bypass grafts and to correlate graft patency and disease with …

… FitzGibbon GM, Keon WJ. Atheroembolic perioperative infarction during repeat coronary
bypass surgery: angiographic documentation in a survivor. Ann Thorac Surg 1986;43:218-9. …

The objective of this study was to determine the constraining effect of the normal human
pericardium. Accordingly, immediately after thoracotomy in nine patients undergoing elective …

BACKGROUND: We examined factors associated with persistent or recurrent congestive
heart failure after aortic valve replacement. METHODS: Patients who underwent aortic valve …

A total of 1,179 vein grafts were studied angiographically in 353 (45%) unselected survivors
(male, mean age 45.5 years) of 786 coronary bypass operations. Studies were conducted …

Authors' synopsis An isolated canine heart preparation was developed which permitted
evaluation of the time course of pressure and flow during ventricular diastole. Negative diastolic …

Endoglin is a homodimeric membrane glycoprotein primarily expressed on endothelial cells.
In association with transforming growth factor (TGF)-β receptors I and II, it can bind TGF-β1 …

Sequential venous coronary bypass grafts have presented problems, mainly because of
commonly reported differences between patency of side-to-side and end-to-side vein-coronary …

The experience of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute with valvular replacement by
Ionescu-Shiley bovine pericardial bioprostheses has been recently reviewed. The focus of the …

The ideal preservation method and cooling temperature for transport of donor hearts are not
known. Serious derangements in myocardial relaxation are well described with different …