title: Surgical ostioplasty for isolated ostial stenosis of the left main stem coronary artery.
abstract: We report the cases of 4 patients in whom surgical ostioplasty was performed for isolated severe ostial stenosis of the left main stem coronary artery. No perioperative death or myocardial infarction occurred. One patient required reoperation for symptomatic recurrent ostial stenosis after 6 months. The others remained angina free after a mean follow-up of 23 months. The literature associated with this procedure is briefly reviewed.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Cardiac Surgery, Southampton General Hospital, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khaddour
authors.lastname: Augustinetang
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Livesey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017130:Angioplasty / Q000379:methods*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010496:Pericardium / Q000637:transplantation; D013536:Suture Techniques