title: Beating heart surgery in a patient with dextrocardia and complete situs inversus.
abstract: We present a 65-year-old female patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus who underwent successful coronary artery bypass without cardiopulmonary bypass. Vessels revascularized included right internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery and a saphenous vein graft to the first obtuse marginal branch. The procedure was performed on a beating heart through a median sternotomy with the use of a compression epicardial stabilizer. The patient was discharged to her home after an uneventful recovery. Only 12 similar cases of myocardial revascularization in patients with dextrocardia have been reported so far, and this is one of the first procedures, in patients with dextrocardia, performed off pump.
authors.affiliation: Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., USA.
authors.forename: Sotiris C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Stamou
authors.forename: Ammar S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Bafi
authors.forename: Emmanouil I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Kapetanakis
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Lowery
authors.forename: Albert J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Pfister
authors.forename: Mercedes K C
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Dullum
authors.forename: Steven W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Boyce
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Corso
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D000368:Aged; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D003914:Dextrocardia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012857:Situs Inversus / Q000150:complications*; D016896:Treatment Outcome