State of the Art Surgical Coronary Revascularization

David P Taggart qualified from Glasgow University in 1981 and obtained MD with Honours in 1989 and PhD in 2000. Basic cardiac surgery training in Glasgow and completed at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Consultant cardiac Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital 1995-present and Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at University of Oxford 2004-present. Have published over 300 peer-reviewed papers mainly in the field of coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Past President of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (2010-12)John D Puskas graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1982, obtained his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1986 and earned a Master's degree in Surgical Science from University of Toronto in 1991. He completed General Surgical Training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and trained in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University. He serves as Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mount Sinai Morningside, West and Downtown Hospitals. Dr Puskas has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and given more than 300 invited lectures nationally and internationally, mainly in the field of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. He is Past President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery and is cofounder with Professor David Taggart of the International Coronary Congress, the only major international annual symposium dedicated to state of the art surgical coronary revascularization.

• Pathophysiology and Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease. Section Editors Thomas Lüscher, Valentin Fuster, and Prashant Vaishnava 1: Mario Gaudino, Stuart Head, and David Taggart: A brief history of the surgical treatment of coronary artery disease 2: Nick Townsend: Epidemiology of Ischaemic Heart disease 3.1: N. Brunning, E. Boersma, D. Duncker: Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease: Regulation of Coronary Flow 3.2: Jay Widmer and Amir Lerman: Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease: Coronary endothelial function 3.3: Hiroaki Shimokawa and Jun Takahashi: Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease: Coronary Artery Spasm 3.4: Romana Herscovici and C. Noel Bairey Merz: Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease: The Coronary Microcirculation and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction 3.5: Hiroyoshi Mori, Sho Torii, and Renu Virmani: Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease: Plaque Rupture and Erosion 3.6: Thomas F. Lüscher: Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease: Biology of bypass vessels and their relation to patency and disease 4: Chin Siang Ong, Ronald K. Binder, Marshall Jacobs, Duke E Cameron: Anatomy and Anomalies of Coronary Arteries 5.1: Jae K. Oh: Non-Invasive Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease: Echocardiography and Stress Echocardiography for Coronary Artery Disease 5.2: Aju P. Pazhenkottil and Ronny R. Buechel: Non-Invasive Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease: Nuclear Cardiology 5.3: Alexander Gotschy and Robert Manka: Non-Invasive Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease: MRI 5.4: Steve Liao: Non-Invasive Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease: Cardiac CT 6: Roberto Ferrari: Ischemia, Hibernation, and Viability 7.1: Matthew I. Tomey: Invasive Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease: Angiography 7.2: Lorenz Räber: Invasive Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease: IVUS 7.3: Giovanni Ciccarelli, Emanuele Barbato, and Bernard De Bruyne: Invasive Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease: Fractional Flow Reserve 7.4: Keyvan Karimi Galougahi, Tomasz Roleder, Akiko Maehara, and Ziad Ali: Invasive Investigation of Coronary Artery Disease: OCT Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease. Section Editors Patrick Serruys, David Holmes, and Vasim Farooq 8: Stuart J. Head, Michael J. Mack, David R. Holmes, David P. Taggart: Heart Team management in coronary revascularization: present reality and future opportunities 9: Vasim Farooq, John Puskas, Patrick W Serruys, David Taggart: Evidence Basis for Decision Making Between Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and PCI Present and Future Perspectives 10: Mansoor Ahmad, Sandra Weiss, and William Weintraub: Lifestyle Management and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease 11: David Holmes and Valentin Fuster: Optimal Medical Therapy for Coronary Artery Disease 12: Milan Milojevic, Philippe Kolh, Stephen Fremes, and Miguel Sousa Uva: Similarities and Differences between American and European Myocardial Revascularization Guidelines 13: Suegene K. Lee, Jay Khambhati, Pratik Sandesara, Danny Eapen, Gina Lundberg, Basil Margolis, Neil Gordon, Barry Franklin, and Laurence Sperling: Comprehensive Secondary Cardiovascular Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation after Coro11nary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery General Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft. Section Editors Steve Fremes and Mikael Halkos 14: T Bruce Ferguson and Samer A M Nashef: Perioperative Risk Scoring Systems for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft 15: Mario Gaudino, Vipin Zamvar, and Richard L. Prager: Quality Metrics in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 16: Stephen E. Fremes, Joseph F. Sabik, David P. Taggart, Derrick Y. Tam, and Reena Karkhanis: Early and Late Outcomes after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft 17: Emmanuel Moss, Michael Halkos, and John Puskas: Evidence Base for Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Pro/Con Pre, Intra and Postoperative Management of the Coronary Artery Bypass Graft patient. Section Editors John Murkin and Greg Fischer 18: Daniel Sellers and George Djaiani: Preoperative Assessment in Coronary Bypass Surgery (Daniel Sellers and George Djaiani) 19: Elvera L. Baron, Menachem M. Weiner, and David L. Reich: Anesthetic Management of On- and Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 20: Jason Chui and John Murkin: Postoperative Management after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery 21: Janet Martin and Davy Cheng: Fast-Track Cardiac Anesthesia & Early Extubation 22: Zev Noah Kornfield and George Despotis: Management of Coagulopathy Management of Cardiopulmonary bypass. Section Editors John Murkin and Greg Fischer 23: Robert A Baker, David Fitzgerald, and Robert C. Groom: Management of Cardiopulmonary bypass 24: Kyriakos Anastasiadis and Thierry Carrel: Minimal invasive extracorporeal circulation (MiECC) for coronary revascularization surgery 25: Constantine L. Athanasuleas and Gerald D. Buckberg: Cardioplegia Strategies 26: Aryeh Shander and Victor A. Ferraris: Patient Blood Management Strategies in Cardiac Surgery Conduits for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft. Section Editors Tristan Yan, Ki-Bong Kim, Paul Bannon and Mario Gaudino 27: Alexios S. Antonopoulos and Charalambos Antoniades: Early vein graft failure 28: Mario Gaudino, Martin Misfeld, and John. L. Brereton: The selection of conduits for coronary artery bypass surgery 29: Minh Quan Vu, Pierre-Emmanuel Noly, Walid Ben Ali, and Louis P. Perrault: Storage solutions for vein grafts 30: Ninos Samano and Domingos Souza: No-touch saphenous vein grafts in coronary artery bypass surgery; A comprehensive review 31: David Taggart: External Stenting of Vein Grafts in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery 32: Ki-Bong Kim: Revascularization Using the Saphenous Vein as a Composite Graft 33: George Green and Bruce Lytle: Personal Perspectives on the Early Development of ITA Grafting and the Role of Bilateral ITA Grafting 34: David Taggart: Bilateral Internal Thoracic Arteries: Implications of the 10-year outcomes of the Arterial Revascularization Trial (ART) 35: Robert F Tranbaugh, Mario Gaudino, Brian F Buxton, and James Tatoulis: The Radial Artery 36: Hisayoshi Suma, Giuseppe Tavilla, and Ki-Bong Kim: The Right Gastroepiploic Artery Graft 37: Bobby Yanagawa, David Taggart, and John Puskas: Total Arterial Revascularization 38: Alice Wang and Peter Smith: Harvesting Conduits: Open vs. Endoscopic 39: Umberto Benedetto, Brian Buxton, and David P Taggart: Harvesting Arterial Conduits: skeletonized vs pedicle vs semi-skeletonized 40: Guo-Wei He: Pharmacology to prevent spasm in conduits Technical Aspects of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft. Section Editors Joseph Sabik, Stuart Head and Vipin Zamvar 41: Bobby Yanagawa, Michael E Halkos, and John D Puskas: Optimal Use of Instruments for Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 42: VA Subramanian and Nirav Patel: Incisions for Coronary Revascularization 43: Sajjad Raza, Khaled Shorbaji, Salil V. Deo, and Joseph F. Sabik): Cannulation Strategies of the Aorta for Coronary Surgery 44: David Glineur and Juan Grau: How to perform a distal coronary anastomosis 45: Brian F Buxton and James Tatoulis: Composite Grafts 46: Juan Grau, J Fortier, and David Glineur: Sequential coronary grafting 47: Gianluca Torregrossa, David Taggart, and John Puskas: Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Tips and tricks 48: Teresa M Kieser and Gabriele Di Giammarco: Intraoperative Graft Assessment with Transit-time Flow Measurement and Epicardial Ultrasound 49: Volkmar Falk and Sebastian Holinski: Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB) 50: Bob Kiaii, Vincenzo Giambruno, Michael W. A. Chu, Francis P. Sutter, Mary Ann C. Wertan: Robotic Coronary Artery Surgical Revascularization 51: Michael O. Kayatta, Henry A. Liberman, and Michael E. Halkos: Hybrid Coronary Revascularization 52: Toshihiro Fukui and Shuichiro Takanashi: Surgical Techniques to Bypass Diffuse Coronary Disease 53: Faisal G. Bakaeen and Lars G. Svensson: Redo Coronary Artery Bypass Graft 54: Gil Bolotin, Michael Mack, Zvi Peled, Antonino Di Franco, and John Puskas: Avoiding stroke during Coronary Artery Bypass Graft 55: W. Brent Keeling, Michael E. Halkos, and John D. Puskas: Anaortic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 56: Roberto Lorusso, Hadi Toeg, Simon Maltais, Scott DeRoo, and Koji Takeda: Management and Impact of Pre-Operative, Intra-Operative, and Post-Operative Cardiogenic Shock/Cardiac Arrest in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patients: The Role of Circulatory Support 57: Harold L. Lazar: Prevention of Mediastinitis Coronary Artery Bypass Graft in special situations. Section Editors Naresh Trehan and Yasir Abu-Omar 58: Jessica Yu Rove and Jennifer S. Lawton: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft in Women 59: Derrick Y Tam, Reena Karkhanis, and Stephen E. Fremes: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft in Octogenarians 60: Babatunde A. Yerokun and Peter Smith: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in the Setting of Acute Myocardial Infarction 61: Andrea Garatti, Serenella Castelvecchio, Alessandro Parolari and Lorenzo Menicanti: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft in patients with ventricular dysfunction: Indications, techniques and outcomes 62: Michael E. Farkouh and Valentin Fuster: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Diabetes and Kidney Disease 63: Serenella Castelvecchio, Raffaella Molfetta, Andrea Garatti, and Lorenzo Menicanti: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft with Surgical Ventricular Reconstruction 64: Anita Nguyen, Ramachandra C. Reddy, and Hartzell V. Schaff: Coronary anomalies: indications and technique, including anomalous coronary arteries and coronary artery fistulas Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and other surgery. Section Editors Marc Ruel and David Glineur 65: Arman Kilic, Robert E. Michler, and Michael A. Acker: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Mitral Valve Surgery 66: Christopher Lau and Leonard N. Girardi: Combined Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Aortic Valve Replacement 67: Hoda Javadikasgari and Marc Gillinov: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft with the Maze Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation 68: Mitesh V. Badiwala: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft with Post-Infarction VSD and with Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm 69: Joshua L. Chan and Keith A. Horvath: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft with Concurrent Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization 70: Suvitesh Luthra, Sunil K Ohri, and David P Taggart: Prior Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Surgical Revascularization 71: Ana Catarina Pinho Gomes and David Taggart: - Guideline directed medical therapy on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

Bypass surgery matters and uniquely prolongs survival for many patients as long as it is performed expertly. This volume is a compendium of the current state of bypass surgery and presents a future agenda.