title: Beating heart off-pump myocardial revascularization in an infant.
abstract: A 6-week-old patient weighing 4 kg was admitted for surgical correction of anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. Reimplantation of the coronary artery with cardiopulmonary bypass was impossible because the patient also had hereditary spherocytosis, which put him at risk for hemolytic anemia. Thus, closure of the left main stem and left internal mammary artery-left anterior descending coronary artery bypass grafting were performed successfully with the heart beating.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Herzchirurgie, Herzzentrum, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. walt@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Walther
authors.forename: Ingo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dähnert
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kiefer
authors.forename: Volkmar
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Falk
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kostelka
authors.forename: Friedrich W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Mohr
mesh_terms: D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000379:methods*; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000601:surgery*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D016896:Treatment Outcome