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Part I. Current Techniques Used in the Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease: Thallium 201 perfusion scintigraphy: physiologic basis and clinical application -- Infarct-avid imaging in coronary artery disease -- Radionuclide evaluation of cardiac performance -- The role of xenon 133 imaging and isoproterenol-induced changes in coronary blood flow during the assessment of coronary artery disease -- Conventional and two-dimensional echocardiography in ischemic heart disease -- The role of Doppler echocardiography in evaluation of coronary artery disease -- The role of computerized transmission tomography in coronary artery disease -- The role of digital subtraction angiography in the evaluation and management of patients with coronary artery disease

Part II. Newer Concepts in Patient Management Related to Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Anesthetic management of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery -- Efficacy of intraoperative myocardial protection in coronary artery bypass graft surgery -- Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and its relationship to coronary artery bypass graft surgery -- The value of intracoronary streptokinase and its relationship to coronary artery bypass graft surgery -- Coronary artery spasm: the role of coronary artery bypass graft surgery -- Intraoperative electrophysiologic approach to the patient with recurrent life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmia -- Invasive electrophysiologic studies in directing therapy for malignant ventricular arrhythmia

Part III. Objective Evaluation of CABG Surgery: Exercise electrocardiography and continuous electrocardiographic monitoring related to coronary artery bypass graft surgery -- Thallium 201 myocardial scintigraphy following coronary artery revascularization -- Intracoronary radiolabeled particulate imaging in the evaluation of myocardial revascularization -- Computed tomography for detection of coronary bypass graft patency -- The incidence and significance of perioperative infarction in myocardial revascularization -- MB-CK in the assessment of myocardial injury after coronary artery bypass surgery

Effects of perioperative myocardial infarction on ventricular performance and long-term outcome after myocardial revascularization -- Correlation among the electrocardiogram, serum enzymes, and nuclear imaging techniques in the diagnosis of perioperative myocardial infarction related to coronary artery bypass graft surgery -- Intraoperative analysis of left ventricular compliance changes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery -- Echocardiography and radionuclide angiography in evaluating the results of coronary artery bypass surgery

The value of radionuclide cineangiographic (gated blood pool) imaging in the evaluation of coronary artery bypass grafting: preoperative and postoperative considerations -- Use of radionuclide measurements of left ventricular function for selection of therapy in patients -- Cardiac dysfunction and interventricular relationships immediately after coronary bypass -- Coronary hemodynamics in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery / Creighton Wright, et al -- Assessment of early and late results of aortocoronary bypass surgery: a clinical-anatomical correlative review