Ventral cardiac denervation is a fast and low-risk procedure. Its use significantly reduces the incidence and severity of atrial fibrillation after routine coronary artery bypass surgery. Patients younger than 70 years of age are expected to have a higher success rate than those older than 70 years.

Thermal imaging provides decisive coronary angiographies, and detects the perfusion area and flow of the implanted graft. It allows real-time detection of technical failures, reveals unexpected occluding plaques or any kind of flow-restricting lesions, and gives the chance of refinement of the anastomosis during the arrest period. We believe that the thermal imaging technique is a safe, noninvasive and feasible method to document the quality of the myocardial revascularization intraoperatively.

Primary malignant cardiac tumours are uncommon, and cardiac malignant mesenchymoma is extremely rare. A case of primary malignant mesenchymoma in a 41-year-old woman arousing from the left atrial septum, obstructing the mitral orifice by passing through it into the left ventricle is described. The tumour was fully resected, and adjuvant chemotherapy was applied, but the patient had died by tumour recurrence in 8 months.

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