title: [Coronary artery bypass grafting by utilizing the artery grafts and bovine internal thoracic artery graft (Bioflow in an elderly patient)].
abstract: We performed coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in a 80-year-old male with calcified ascending aorta and severe varicose veins utilizing the bilateral internal thoracic arteries and the right gastroepiploic artery under fibrillatory arrest without aortic cross-clamp (aortic no-touch technique). After triple coronary artery bypass grafting was completed, heart failure occurred. Additional Bioflow graft to the circumflex artery restored good cardiac function. The aortic no-touch technique is a useful method for CABG in patients with severe calcified ascending aorta. This experience suggests that the Bioflow graft is a helpful conduit at an urgent situation in CABG.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mitsui Memorial Hospital.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suma
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Terada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takayama
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wanibuchi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Furuta
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013895:Thoracic Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left