Hammock-like graft-holding method using a cotton bandage in off-pump coronary artery bypass.
A simple and inexpensive new graft-holding method is described. This method requires only a cotton bandage to hold the skeletonized graft in off-pump coronary artery bypass. A wet cotton bandage hung between the blades of a retractor can hold grafts in an atraumatic fashion at the center of the operating field and facilitate anastomosis during off-pump coronary artery bypass.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo Brain and Heart Center, Hyogo, Japan. hobo@hbhc.jp
Hidefumi
H
Obo
Nobuhiko
N
Mukohara
Masato
M
Yoshida
Tsutomu
T
Shida
D001158:Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*; D001458:Bandages; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019737:Transplants