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Pulmonary hypertension during beating heart coronary surgery: intermittent inferior vena cava snaring
1Department of Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Quebec, Canada.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 6, 1999
Abstract:
Pulmonary hypertension during beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting may compromise the possibility of safely completing the procedure off-pump. To obviate such a problem, we describe a simple technique by which the inferior vena cava is progressively snared to decrease pulmonary pressure.