Immobilization of ascending aorta with starfish positioner in off-pump CABG.
We describe an easy and simple way to immobilize the ascending aorta with the Starfish heart positioner during proximal anastomosis in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.
Yasuda
Tamotsu
T
Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan. tamotsuyasuda@aol.com
Watanabe
Go
G
Tomita
Shigeyuki
S
Higashidani
Koichi
K
D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery*; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome