Power Doppler imaging for detection of harvest injury of internal mammary artery.
Harvest injury of the internal mammary artery can lead to early thrombosis, which may be difficult to differentiate from atherosclerosis or harvest spasm in some cases. We describe the efficacy of intraoperative evaluation of the internal mammary artery by power Doppler imaging during off-pump or minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting.
Suematsu
Yoshihiro
Y
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. suematsu@aurora.dti.ne.jp
Takamoto
Shinichi
S
Ohtsuka
Toshiya
T
Motomura
Noboru
N
Miyairi
Takeshi
T
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004285:Dogs; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000293:injuries*; D008875:Middle Aged; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000009:adverse effects*