title: Minimally invasive bilateral internal mammary artery bypass grafting.
abstract: We report about a 71-year-old man with coronary artery double-vessel disease who received minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting through a 9-cm left lateral chest incision in the third intercostal space. Both mammary arteries were harvested either directly (left internal mammary artery) or thoracoscopically (right internal mammary artery) and anastomosed to the left anterior descending artery and the circumflex artery through this single left lateral chest incision. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged on postoperative day 5.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Institute, University Hospital Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gulielmos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dangel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schüler
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D007387:Internal Mammary-Coronary Artery Anastomosis / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome