A dental mirror provides excellent exposure of the right coronary artery during cardioplegia.
It sometimes is very difficult to achieve good exposure of the orifice of the right coronary artery through a typical aortotomy when inserting the cannula for the selective antegrade administration of cardioplegic solution to the right coronary artery. A simple technique of exposing the orifice of the right coronary artery using a dental mirror is described.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Maizuru Mutual Hospital, 1035 Hama, Maizuru, Kyoto, 625-8585, Japan. atmatsu@tokyonet.com.au
Tsutomu
T
Matsushita
Shinsuke
S
Masuda
Tomoya
T
Inoue
D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003762:Dental Instruments; D006324:Heart Arrest, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans