title: [Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting/beating coronary artery bypass grafting for a patient with low left ventricular ejection fraction].
abstract: Beating coronary artery bypass grafting could be performed for a 47-year-old man with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 9.3%. Post-operative LVEF was improved to 51.6%. Conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) used to be contraindicative for patients with LVEF below 20%. Recently, such patients are involved to indication of off-pump CABG (OPCAB) or beating CABG, because we consider OPCAB are lower complications than conventional CABG. We were able to bypass the circumflex for the patient while we had been used percutaneous cardio-pulmonary support (PCPS). We could perform beating coronary artery bypass grafting for a patient of the low LVEF.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Senda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kotoh
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukahara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Furuta
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Misaki
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013318:Stroke Volume; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications*