title: Coronary-coronary bypass using vein graft on a beating heart in a patient with porcelain aorta.
abstract: There is increased risk of systemic embolism during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients with a severely atherosclerotic ascending aorta. We report a coronary-coronary bypass in a 74-year-old man with a porcelain aorta. He underwent a proximal right coronary-distal right coronary artery bypass with a saphenous vein graft, combined with a pedicled arterial graft (left internal mammary artery) to the left anterior descending artery, in the presence of a beating heart without cardiopulmonary bypass. The patient survived without evidence of perioperative myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular accident. One year later, follow-up angiography showed graft patency with good distal run-off. Coronary-coronary bypass on a beating heart without cardiopulmonary bypass can be performed safely in a patient with porcelain aorta.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Alkan Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors: Nevzat
authors: N
authors: Erdil
authors: Sanser
authors: S
authors: Ates
authors: Ufuk
authors: U
authors: Demirkilic
authors: Harun
authors: H
authors: Tatar
authors: Cemal
authors: C
authors: Sag
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery*; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000637:transplantation; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D014654:Vascular Patency