A practical and inexpensive proximal anastomosis technique in calcified aorta.
Patients with severely calcified aorta have high risk of atheroemboli and bleeding during cardiac surgery. Clamping the ascending aorta to initiate cardiac arrest or to perform proximal anastomosis is a challenging problem. Beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting without aortic clamping is usually accepted as the best solution. Herein, we present a feasible and inexpensive proximal anastomosis technique without using aortic clamps for patients with severely atherosclerotic aorta.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hitit University Corum Education and Training Hospital, Bahçelievler Mah. Çamlık Cad. No: 2, 19100, Çorum, Turkey. adnanyalcinkaya@gmail.com.
Adnan
A
Yalçınkaya
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hitit University Corum Education and Training Hospital, Bahçelievler Mah. Çamlık Cad. No: 2, 19100, Çorum, Turkey.
Adem İlkay
Aİ
Diken
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hitit University Corum Education and Training Hospital, Bahçelievler Mah. Çamlık Cad. No: 2, 19100, Çorum, Turkey.
Seyhan
S
Yılmaz
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hitit University Corum Education and Training Hospital, Bahçelievler Mah. Çamlık Cad. No: 2, 19100, Çorum, Turkey.
Kerim
K
Çağlı
D000368:Aged; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003250:Constriction; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000379:methods*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D061205:Vascular Calcification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*
Atheroemboli; Calcific aorta; Proximal anastomosis