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.
Lekas
Raimundas
R
Institute for Biomedical Research, Kaunas University of Medicine, Eiveniu 4, 50009 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Jakuska
Povilas
P
Krisciukaitis
Algimantas
A
Veikutis
Vincentas
V
Dzemyda
Gintautas
G
Mickevicius
Tomas
T
Morkūnaite
Kristina
K
Vilke
Alina
A
Treigys
Povilas
P
Civinskiene
Genuvaite
G
Andriuskevicius
Jonas
J
Vanagas
Tomas
T
Skauminas
Kestutis
K
Bernatoniene
Jurga
J
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