Graft patency verification is increasingly recognized as an important component of coronary
artery bypass grafting. Intuitively, eliminating intraoperative graft failure should reduce …

“Therapeutic angiogenesis” describes an emerging field of cardiovascular medicine
whereby new blood vessels are induced to grow to supply oxygen and nutrients to ischemic …

Objective: To determine whether coronary graft patency can be predicted by transit time flow
measurement (TTFM). Methods: From May 1 1997 to December 31 1998, TTFM was …

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the possibility to predict
postoperative graft patency in coronary surgery by means of intraoperative transit-time flow …

Background. A low-flow situation in arterial and venous grafts has been associated with high
rates of perioperative infarction and mortality. This study was designed to look at …

Despite there being numerous studies of intraoperative graft flow assessment by transit-time
flow measurement (TTFM) on outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), the …

OBJECTIVE: Inadvertent vessel compromise is one major cause of unfavorable outcome
from aneurysm surgery. Existing strategies for intraoperative assessment of this complication …

The purpose of this paper was to non-invasively assess hemodynamic parameters such as
mass flow, wall shear stress (WSS), and wall pressure with computational fluid dynamics …

Objectives: A noninvasive continuous cardiac output system (NICO) has been developed
recently. NICO uses a ratio of the change in the end-tidal carbon dioxide partial pressure …

Background. Anastomotic quality is currently the critical issue in minimally invasive coronary
surgery. Although little is known about its effectiveness, surgeons routinely assess grafts …