The “hybrid” approach to multivessel coronary artery disease combines surgical left internal thoracic artery (LITA) to left anterior
descending coronary artery (LAD) bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention of the remaining lesions. Ideally, the LITA to LAD bypass graft is
performed in a minimally invasive fashion. This review aims to clarify the place of hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR) in the current therapeutic armamentarium
against multivessel coronary artery disease. Eighteen studies including 970 patients were included for analysis. The postoperative LITA patency varied between
93.0% and 100.0%. The mean overall survival rate in hybrid treated patients was 98.1%. Hybrid treated patients showed statistically significant shorter
hospital length of stay (LOS), intensive care unit (ICU) LOS, and intubation time, less packed red blood cell (PRBC)
transfusion requirements, and lower in-hospital major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event (MACCE) rates compared with patients
treated by on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). This resulted in a significant reduction in costs for hybrid treated
patients in the postoperative period. In studies completed to date, HCR appears to be a promising and cost-effective alternative for CABG in the treatment of
multivessel coronary artery disease in a selected patient population.
Primary hyperhidrosis is a dermatologic condition characterized by excessive sweating beyond that needed for physiologic thermoregulation, without an underlying systemic condition. 1 Primary hyperhidrosis usually affects one or more distinct body sites and, therefore, is also referred to as primary focal hyperhidrosis (PFH). 2 PFH has a wide range of reported estimated prevalence, 3-5 with the most widely cited population prevalence estimate of 2.8%. 4 A recent study estimated population prevalence at 1 to 1.6% for patients
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