title: [A case of coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient who has a rosary-like coronary lesion with Buerger's disease].
abstract: We report a case of coronary artery bypass grafting using left intra thoracic artery (LITA) in a 63-year-old male with Buerger's disease. His coronary angiography showed a long lesion seemed rosary in the left anterior descending (LAD). At operation, the surface of the coronary artery was dark red with white speckles. The LAD was opened distal end of disease, the intima of the coronary artery made much soft thin fold. The disease was never atheromatous. His coronary angiography showed a very rarely finding that seemed rosary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hokkaido Ohno Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Umami
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohno
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohkawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Doi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugiki
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000473:pathology*