Delayed chronic type A dissection with a functional midline crossing right internal thoracic artery after CABG: surgical approach to an ascending aorta without dissecting the midline crossing internal thoracic artery.
We successfully treated chronic type A dissection and coronary artery disease with a functional midline crossing right internal thoracic artery (RITA) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). A 68-year-old man was incidentally diagnosed as chronic type A dissection by follow-up cardiac catheterization after CABG, with 90% stenosis in the right coronary artery (RCA) No. 2. The dissecting aneurysm (max. 6 cm in diameter) was localized at the right portion of the ascending aorta with a functional RITA to the left anterior descending coronary artery. The dissecting aneurysm was treated with patch closure and the RCA was revascularized with a right gastroepiploic artery and saphenous vein composite graft through combined right antero-axillar thoracotomy and lower mini-sternotomy without RITA dissection. Treatment of chronic type A dissection following CABG becomes more challenging with a functional midline crossing RITA. It is important that a safe and less invasive surgical strategy be implemented for such complicated case.
Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Takashi
T
Yamauchi
Yuji
Y
Miyamoto
Hiroshi
H
Takano
Yoshiki
Y
Sawa
Goro
G
Matsumiya
Masayuki
M
Sakaki
Hikaru
H
Matsuda
D000368:Aged; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors