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Abbasali Karimi

Researcher at Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Publications -  122
Citations -  2545

Abbasali Karimi is an academic researcher from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coronary artery disease & Coronary artery bypass surgery. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 113 publications receiving 2317 citations. Previous affiliations of Abbasali Karimi include Sharif University of Technology & University of Cologne.

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Effects of body mass index on early outcome of coronary artery bypass surgery.

TL;DR: According to this study, obese patients undergoing CABG are not at a greater risk of perioperative death and other adverse outcomes compared to normal weight, but underweight patients are at higher risk of developing gastrointestinal complicationsCompared to normal patients.
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Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Left Main Disease: The Obesity Paradox

TL;DR: It is found that despite a higher prevalence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia, overweight and obese patients who were candidates for coronary artery bypass graft surgery were significantly less likely to have left main disease according to preoperative angiography.
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Concomitant carotid endarterectomy and coronary artery bypass grafting versus staged carotid stenting followed by coronary artery bypass grafting.

TL;DR: ConcomitantCarotid endarterectomy and CABG is as safe as carotid stenting and CabG, with fewer neurologic events and less hypotension, bradycardia, cost and shorter hospital stay.
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Mitral valve recurrence of a left atrial myxoma

TL;DR: A case of non-familial cardiac myxoma, which after successful resection of the tumor mass from the left atrium, recurred in the atrial surface of anterior leaflet of the mitral valve, along with a review of similar cases in the literature.
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Hyperuricemia and the Presence and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease

TL;DR: Asymptomatic hyperuricemia may be associated with the presence and severity of angiographically-defined CAD in patients with suspicious symptoms for CAD, and a significant association existed only in men.