Traumatic laceration of a saphenous vein graft: successful surgical repair.
Traumatic laceration of a saphenous vein grafted for coronary artery bypass is extremely rare. Successful surgical repair of a laceration was performed in a 64-year-old man who developed retrosternal hematoma from a saphenous vein graft after blunt injury to the chest.
Harada
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Division of Cardiac Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Sakakibara
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Horiba
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K
Takenaka
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H
Ida
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T
Obunai
Y
Y
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*; D013536:Suture Techniques; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*