CABG surgery with long coronary endarterectomy of the LAD

CABG surgery with long coronary endarterectomy of the LAD

Diffuse atherosclerosis of the anterior descending artery may require unconventional surgical treatment to increase graft flow. A 74-year-old man with severe, diffuse 3-vessel-coronary artery disease was presented to our institution with progredient angina pectoris symptoms. Intraoperatively, the re...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2010-12, Vol.16 (6), p.445-447
Hauptverfasser: Schmitto, Jan D, Kolat, Philipp, Ortmann, Philipp, Popov, Aron F, Coskun, Kasim O, Sohns, Christian, Hinz, Jose, Schoendube, Friedrich A
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Sprache:eng
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Coronary Artery Bypass
Coronary Artery Disease - surgery
Endarterectomy
Humans
Male
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Zusammenfassung:Diffuse atherosclerosis of the anterior descending artery may require unconventional surgical treatment to increase graft flow. A 74-year-old man with severe, diffuse 3-vessel-coronary artery disease was presented to our institution with progredient angina pectoris symptoms. Intraoperatively, the revascularization of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) was technically challenging because of the extremely calcified coronary artery disease; therefore we performed the longest endarterectomy of the LAD that has thus far been described.
ISSN:2186-1005