Coronary artery bypass grafting using a bifurcated internal thoracic artery.
Coronary artery bypass grafting was performed successfully on a patient by anastomosing the left internal thoracic artery and its pericardiacophrenic branch to the obtuse marginal and the posterior descending coronary artery, respectively, to form a Y graft. Preoperative angiography of the internal thoracic artery had revealed the presence of an unusually large pericardiacophrenic branch almost the size of the main trunk, which allowed us to plan for bifurcated artery grafting.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, 15-749 Honmachi, Higashiyama, Kyoto 605-0981, Japan. snumat@yahoo.co.jp
Satoshi
S
Numata
Yuichiro
Y
Murayama
Osamu
O
Sakai
Keitaro
K
Koushi
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000473:pathology / Q000637:transplantation*; D008875:Middle Aged