title: Off-pump CABG for a patient with a brain tumor.
abstract: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) without cardiopulmonary bypass (off-pump CABG) was performed on a patient with a brain tumor. A patient with effort angina of the left anterior descending artery (LAD), and diagonal branch stenosis was referred to us for CABG. He had a mass lesion in the brain that was diagnosed as meningioma involving the internal carotid artery and a middle cerebral artery. To avoid brain complications, we performed off-pump CABG using the internal thoracic and radial arteries to the LAD and a diagonal branch. Off-pump CABG was an effective method to avoid brain complications for patients with a brain tumor involving cerebral vessels.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Fukuoka School of Medicine, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tashiro
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zaitu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Motomura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwahashi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murai
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iwakuma
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kimura
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D000075202:Contraindications; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed