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Emergency off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) for left main coronary occlusion using rapid aorto-coronary
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA. paulckerr@msn.com
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|March 20, 2003
Abstract:
64 year old female with occluded left main after first injection brought to the operating room in extremis on IABP and maximum inotropes. LAD grafted with sapenous vein and immediate aorto-coronary perfusion. Circumflex grafted and patient taken to ICU. Patient discharged on POD #6 after echo shows normal ventricular with no wall motion abnormality.