How I do it: high-quality intraoperative fluorescence imaging in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.
We have developed a simple technique for establishing high-quality intraoperative fluorescence imaging in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. The technique of transaortic injection of indocyanine green is an effective method of achieving clear fluorescence imaging and for evaluating the quality of graft anastomoses. We consider the images obtained with this technique to be equivalent to those obtained by conventional coronary angiography with selective enhancement of the graft.
Nishida
Satoru
S
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. snishida@k6.dion.ne.jp
Kikuchi
Yujiro
Y
Watanabe
Go
G
Takata
Munehisa
M
Ushijima
Teruaki
T
Ito
Shigeki
S
Kawachi
Kenji
K
D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000379:methods*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006801:Humans; D007208:Indocyanine Green; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*; D017534:Radial Artery / Q000473:pathology* / Q000637:transplantation*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007208:Indocyanine Green