Six-month angiographic follow-up of the PAS-Port II clinical trial

BACKGROUND: The PAS-Port device (Cardica, Redwood City, CA) allows the rapid deployment of a clampless proximal anastomosis between a vein graft and the aorta. METHODS: Fifty-four patients awaiting elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery were enrolled. Outcome variables were intraoperative device performance, early and 6- month angiographic graft patency, and 12-month clinical follow-up. RESULTS: Sixty-three PAS-Port devices were deployed in 54 patients. Two deployments were unsuccessful. There were no reoperations for bleeding. Two patients died of causes unrelated to the device. Patency evaluation at discharge was performed by angiogram on 49 implants and computed tomography in 2 implants (86% follow-up). At discharge, all evaluated grafts were patent (100%) and rated Fitzgibbon A. At 6-month follow-up, there was no additional mortality; 47 implants (88% follow-up) were evaluated by angiography (Fitzgibbon O [n = 1], Fitzgibbon B [n = 1], and Fitzgibbon A [n = 45]) and 5 by computed tomography. All grafts but 1 were patent (98.1%). At 12 months, 2 additional patients died of causes unrelated to the PAS-Port implant. Forty-six of 50 alive patients (95.8%) were followed up without any reports of device-related major adverse cardiac events. CONCLUSIONS: Discharge (100%) and 6-month patency (98%) are excellent; patency and 12 months' clinical follow-up compares favorably with data from historical hand-sewn controls. The PAS-Port system safely allows the clampless creation of a proximal anastomosis.

Let France explain.

"The French Negro armies": p. 255-257.

The wandering years /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lord Edward, a study in romance,

Mode of access: Internet.

La Grèce d'aujourd'hui.

On cover: Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie frana̧ise.

History of Genesee County, Michigan, her people, industries and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families /

Includes indexes.

La Grèce d'aujourd'hui.

Mode of access: Internet.

La Grèce d'aujourd'hui. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie française.

Mode of access: Internet.

Apologeticus adversus gentes pro Christianis;

Mode of access: Internet.

The lost angel,

Printed in Great Britain.

An isle in the water,

The first wife.--The story of Father Anthony O'Toole.--The unlawful mother.--A rich woman.--How Mary came home.--Mauryeen.--A wrestling.--The sea's dead.--Katie.--The death spancel.--A solitary.--The man who was hanged.--A prodigal son.--Changing the nurseries.--The fields of my childhood.

Literature and life /

Book two by Dudley Miles, Clarence Stratton, Robert C. Pooley and Edwin Greenlaw ; Books three and four by Dudley Miles, Robert C. Pooley and Edwin Greenlaw.

Russkai︠a︡ karikatura.

[1] V.F. Timm.--2. Otechestvennai︠a︡ voĭna: Terebenev, Venet︠s︡īanov, Ivanov.--3. A.O. Orlovskiĭ.

L'Europe au jour le jour.

Articles reprinted from the Journal des débats, 1908-20.

Arriani tōn met'Alexandron libri septimi fragmenta e codice Vaticano rescripto edita /

Cover-title.