[Late results of a mammary-coronary anastomosis]. / Otdalennye rezul'taty mammarno-koronarnogo anastomoza.

Remote results of the treatment of 102 patients with mammary-coronary anastomosis for chronic coronary insufficiency, pre-infarction state and acute transmural myocardial infarction created in 1964-1976 are investigated. The observations continued from 5 to 16 years. In most cases mammary-coronary anastomosis was created without an artificial blood circulation on the contracting heart. An original model of the apparatus for suturing the vessels was used. More than 70% of the patients are alive (up to 16 years after operation) or survived from 5 to 16 years. In 40% of the living patients there is no stenocardia and they do not use nitroglycerin. Some patients were operated urgently in 1968-1975 for extensive transmural myocardial infarction. After creation of the mammary-coronary anastomosis the infarction was found to disappear. The patients are still alive.

[Combined operations for cancer of the proximal portion and body of the stomach]. / O kombinirovannykh operatsiiakh po povodu raka proksimal'nogo otdela i tela zheludka.

For many years the authors have been using the upper transverse extensive laparotomy in operations for carcinoma of the proximal part and body of the stomach. 201 radical operations have been performed, 89 of them being of a combined type. In carcinoma of the proximal part and body of the stomach the combined operations total 44,2%, in almost half of the patients the pancreas being resected. The five-year survival of the observed patients made up 21,9%. The combined operations were performed on 8 patients with the IV stage of gastric carcinoma. Four of them survived for more than a year, two for more than three years and two are still alive (over 12 years).

[Basic trends in the development of coronary surgery]. / Osnovnye napravleniia v razvitii koronarokhirurgii.

The author began using successfully mammary-coronary anastomosis in the clinic in 1964. He used both--suture technic of the creation of anastomosis and the vasosuturing apparatus. The author believes that the use of Favaloro and Effler autovenous aortocoronary shunting delayed the clinical use of mammary-coronary anastomosis without any reasonable scientific grounds. He also considers that an inexact historic information on the use of mammary-coronary anastomosis is presented in the literature, and physiological peculiarities of this operation are underestimated so far.

[Retrograde mammary-coronary anastomosis and its place among other methods of myocardial revascularization]. / Retrogradnyi mammary-koronarnyi anastomoz i ego mesto sredi drugikh sposobov revaskuliarizatsii miokarda

Under consideration is a special kind of mammary-coronary anastomosis--a retrograde mammary-coronary anastomosis, first suggested by the authors. An anteretrograde mammary-coronary anastomosis was performed in 104 patients, a retrograde one--in 6. The use of a retrograde mammary-coronary anastomosis yielded favourable results, which in some cases are remained for 4-5 years.

[Experimental study of coronary-splenic arterial anastomosis with the aim of myocardial revascularization]. / Eksperimental'noe izuchenie operatsii venechno-selezenochnogo arterial'nogo anastomoza v tseliakh revaskuliarizatsii miokarda

In search of new sources for cardiac revascularization of the myocardium in ischemic heart disease the authors elaborated experimentally on dogs an operation of construction of retrograde arterial splenocoronary anastomosis. The results of the operation were estimated by means of EEG findings, vital and postmortem coronarography and histological studies of the myocardium and zone of the anastomosis. An analysis of the experimental data obtained has revealed a patency of the vascular anastomosis in most animals; electrocardiographic signs of acute myocardial infarction, developed in high ligation of the anterior intraventricular branch of the left coronary artery, would undergo a prompt reverse dynamics after constructing a splenocoronary anastomosis. Further studies of the mentioned method of revascularization of the myocardium seems to be rather perspective.