[Left ventricular reconstruction on the beating heart with retrograde coronary perfusion for repair of a left ventricular aneurysm associated with aortic regurgitation: report of a case].
A 67-year-old male was undergoing hemodialysis for renal failure. He had carotid stenosis, multiple liver cysts with impaired liver function, and mild aortic regurgitation in addition to a left ventricular aneurysm with reduced left ventricular function. We used intraaortic balloon pumping with a view to maintaining cerebral and hepatic blood flow during extracorporeal circulation. However, this procedure risked increased regurgitation at the aortic valve. Therefore, after aortic cross-clamping, we performed the left ventricular reconstruction while cardiac pulsation was maintained by retrograde coronary perfusion using normothermic oxygenated blood. Coronary artery bypass grafting followed after the cross-clamp was released. The patient's postoperative progress was smooth and he was discharged on 14th postoperative day.
Takahashi
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Division of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Circulatory Center, Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience, Koriyama, Japan.
Kanno
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Sakurada
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Ono
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Naganuma
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D000368:Aged; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007423:Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping; D008297:Male; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications