title: Revascularization using angioplasty and minimally invasive techniques documented by thermal imaging.
abstract: Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting offers mortality and morbidity advantages to selected patients. To broaden indications for such, an appropriate and combined disciplinary approach using angioplasty and minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting is described in a patient requiring reoperative grafting. Documentation of patency of new left internal mammary artery-to-left anterior descending artery anastomoses performed without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass was obtained intraoperatively using a Thermal Imaging Camera.
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Surgical Associates, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407, USA.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Emery
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Emery
authors.forename: T F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Flavin
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Nissen
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Mooney
authors.forename: K V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Arom
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000601:surgery*; D017130:Angioplasty; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007387:Internal Mammary-Coronary Artery Anastomosis; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D012086:Reoperation; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D013817:Thermography / Q000295:instrumentation; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014654:Vascular Patency