title: Combined non-cardiac operations with minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting.
abstract: We report two cases in which Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting was followed by other non-cardiac operations in the same operative setting. A left internal thoracic artery-to-left anterior descending artery anastomosis was constructed through a left anterior thoracotomy in both patients. Immediately after Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting, one patient underwent a pancreatoduodenectomy for a biliary duct carcinoma and the other patient received a prosthetic graft replacement for an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting is advantageous in patients with significant coronary artery disease who have to undergo other non-cardiac surgeries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery II, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ochi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kutsukata
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohkubo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ogasawara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000601:surgery; D016577:Pancreaticoduodenectomy