Surgical treatment for late postoperative radial artery graft spasm.
Hemodynamic instability due to late postoperative radial artery spasm is a rare phenomenon. This entity developed in our patient who was operated on for severe left main coronary artery stenosis with a dominant circumflex artery. The spasm could not be relieved with intraluminal vasodilator therapy, and the patient underwent reoperation using a saphenous vein graft-anastomosed distal to radial artery.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kosuyolu Heart and Research Hospital, Kadikoy, 81020 Istanbul, Turkey. drdenyan@yahoo.com
Denyan
D
Mansuroglu
Suat Nail
SN
Omeroglu
Bahadir
B
Daglar
Gokhan
G
Ipek