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Evaluation of a Novel Laser-assisted Coronary Anastomotic Connector - the Trinity Clip - in a Porcine Off-pump Bypass Model
Published on: November 24, 2014
Minimally invasive coronary bypass without general endotracheal anesthesia
M A Zenati1, J Paiste, J P Williams
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Pennsylvania 15213, USA. zenatim@msx.upmc.edu
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 18, 2001
Abstract:
This report describes the case of a 51-year-old man with myocardial ischemia resulting from in-stent restenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery who underwent a minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass using thoracic epidural analgesia while awake, without general endotracheal anesthesia.

