title: [Lateral femoral circumflex artery as a free graft for coronary artery bypass grafting to an 85-year-old man; report of a case].
abstract: An 85-year-old man had a 2 vessel coronary disease. Preoperative echogram showed the lateral femoral circumflex artery (LFCA) had enough diameter and length. We performed coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) with the left internal thoracic artery (LITA) and LFCA. Postoperative coronary angiogram showed that the LFCA bypass graft was patent and supplied sufficient blood to the anastomosed vessel.
authors: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Minami-Osaka Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors: Masafumi
authors: M
authors: Morita
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Tanaka
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Nakai
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Kakimoto
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Murai
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Nariyama
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Yamashita
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Ookubo
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Miyakoshi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014654:Vascular Patency