title: Starfish-assisted off-pump obliteration of massive coronary arteriovenous fistulae.
abstract: Coronary arteriovenous fistula is a rare congenital heart disease. A 71-year-old woman suffered from heart failure due to massive coronary arteriovenous fistulae from the right coronary artery and left circumflex artery to the coronary sinus. Using the off-pump technique, we successfully performed Starfish-assisted obliteration of the fistulae. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography was used to confirm the complete elimination of the abnormal shunt flow.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital and Mackay Junior College of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Shen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Jiun-Yi
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Po-Yuan
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Shye-Jao
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans