Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting surgery in a child with Kawasaki disease.
An 8-year-old girl with Kawasaki disease underwent surgical revascularization to the left anterior descending coronary artery on the beating heart via a left anterior short thoracotomy. Angiography 21 months after surgery showed excellent graft patency. This case--the first success in minimally invasive surgical coronary artery revascularization in a child in the world--suggests that minimally invasive methods are a reasonable alternative in coronary artery revascularization in a child with Kawasaki disease whose left anterior descending artery is the only requiring it.
Nabuchi
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Heart Disease Center, Yamato Seiwa Hospital, 9-8-2 Minami-Rinkan, Yamato 242-0006, Japan.
Sonobe
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D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D002648:Child; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*