Cardiac stabilizer for minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass.
We describe a simple and effective device that is useful in reducing cardiac motion, enabling the surgeon to perform a precise direct left internal mammary artery anastomosis to the left anterior descending coronary artery on a beating heart.
Izzat
M B
MB
Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. b865721@mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk
Yim
A P
AP
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D007103:Immobilization; D013525:Surgical Instruments