Safe coronary artery occlusion with a new tourniquet in off-pump bypass grafting.
Coronary artery occlusion during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting may lead to mechanical trauma of the arterial wall. My colleagues and I describe a safe coronary artery occlusion technique in off-pump bypass grafting that uses a new spring-equipped tourniquet, which enables precise adjustment of the least force necessary to occlude the coronary flow. This prevents snare-induced vessel wall damage.
Arai
Hirokuni
H
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. hiro.tsrg@tmd.ac.jp
Oi
Keiji
K
Tanaka
Hiroyuki
H
Tabuchi
Noriyuki
N
Sunamori
Makoto
M
D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000209:etiology; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D014111:Tourniquets; D016896:Treatment Outcome