Endoscopic-assisted atraumatic coronary artery bypass.
Minimally invasive operations designed to graft the left anterior descending coronary artery with the left internal mammary artery are either traumatic to the chest wall or technically difficult and expensive. This report describes a novel procedure that is less traumatic and simpler.
Vassiliades
Thomas A
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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. vassiliades@pol.net
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007387:Internal Mammary-Coronary Artery Anastomosis / Q000379:methods*