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Direct repair of giant right coronary aneurysm
S Westaby1, G Vaccari, T Katsumata
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Oxford Heart Centre, The John Radcliffe Hospital, England. swestaby@ahf.org.uk
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 30, 1999
Abstract:
We describe a novel method for surgical repair of giant right coronary aneurysm. Instead of aneurysm ligation and coronary bypass we mobilized the inflow and outflow and performed end-to-end anastomosis. This preserved the native vessel. Restudy in both patients confirmed the effectiveness of this technique.