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Reversed-J inferior sternotomy for beating heart coronary surgery
J G Grandjean1, C Canosa, M A Mariani
1Thorax Center, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands. j.g.grandjean@thorax.azg.nl
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 4, 1999
Abstract:
Median sternotomy or combined multiple minimally invasive approaches are currently used to revascularize patients with multivessel coronary artery disease on the beating heart. We present here a new alternative approach for minimally invasive coronary surgery on the beating heart: the reversed-J inferior sternotomy. Through this approach, the left anterior descending, diagonal, and right coronary arteries can be revascularized via a single minimally invasive approach.