title: Muscle tamponade to control venous bleeding around grafts to deeply intramyocardial coronary arteries.
abstract: Considerable difficulty may be encountered in controlling persistent venous bleeding from the cut myocardial edges when coronary grafts have to be constructed to a deeply intramyocardial portion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. We describe a safe, inexpensive, and highly effective method of dealing with this problem using muscle tamponade with a prepared segment of rectus abdominis muscle. The technique has been used with uniform success and without complication in more than 60 patients.
authors.affiliation: Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Sulman Al Khalifa Cardiac Centre, Bahrain.
authors.forename: I J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Reece
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: al Tareif
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D006488:Hemostasis, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans