Failure of gastroepiploic artery graft due to gastroduodenal artery stenosis.
We report a patient with recurrent angina after gastroepiploic artery grafting to the right coronary artery because of a stenotic lesion of the gastroduodenal artery, which limited blood flow through the right gastroepiploic artery graft and caused myocardial ischemia. The patient was successfully treated by saphenous vein grafting to the right coronary artery without cardiopulmonary bypass.
Kawasuji
M
M
Department of Surgery (1), Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan.
Takemura
H
H
Sakakibara
N
N
Watanabe
Y
Y
D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D000792:Angiography; D001158:Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation