Monitoring changes in heart tissue temperature and evaluation of graft function after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.
Thermography is a relatively new contact-free method used in experimental and clinical studies and in cardiovascular surgery to investigate the myocardium and coronary artery function. Objects of complex study included mongrel dogs and patients with coronary artery disease who underwent cardiac surgery. For active dynamic thermography, we used a thermovision camera "A20V" (FLIR Systems, USA). Our data indicate that both experimental and clinical study performed on beating hearts could be an important approach to interoperation inspection of autovenous graft function. An infrared camera also can be successfully used to determine the extent of ischemic damage to the myocardium, heart, and blood vessels during surgery as a significant prognostic tool for evaluating outcome after cardiac operation.
Institute for Biomedical Research, Kaunas University of Medicine, Eiveniu 4, 50009 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Raimundas
R
Lekas
Povilas
P
Jakuska
Algimantas
A
Krisciukaitis
Vincentas
V
Veikutis
Gintautas
G
Dzemyda
Tomas
T
Mickevicius
Kristina
K
Morkūnaite
Alina
A
Vilke
Povilas
P
Treigys
Genuvaite
G
Civinskiene
Jonas
J
Andriuskevicius
Tomas
T
Vanagas
Kestutis
K
Skauminas
Jurga
J
Bernatoniene
D000818:Animals; D001831:Body Temperature; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006324:Heart Arrest, Induced; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis; D013817:Thermography; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014680:Veins / Q000637:transplantation