[A case of lateral femoral circumflex artery as a free graft for coronary artery bypass surgery].
A 46-year-old man had a three-vessel coronary disease. We performed quadruple coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with the left internal thoracic artery (LITA), right gastroepiploic artery (RGEA), saphenous vein and lateral femoral circumflex artery (LFCA). Postoperative coronary angiogram showed that the LFCA bypass graft was patent and supplied sufficient blood to the anastomosed vessel. There was no stenosis at the anastomotic site. However, the LFCA graft showed a string sign. Long-term follow-up and angiographic studies is necessary to establish the use of LFCA as an arterial free graft for coronary revascularization.
Sato
F
F
Department of Surgery, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Terada
Y
Y
Moriki
N
N
Watanabe
K
K
Matsuzaki
K
K
Shigeta
O
O
Atsumi
N
N
Jikuya
T
T
Sakakibara
Y
Y
Mitsui
T
T
D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D019074:Epigastric Arteries / Q000637:transplantation; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000637:transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D013895:Thoracic Arteries / Q000637:transplantation