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Right pleuropericardial release: a useful technique in off-pump coronary surgery
Theodore Velissaris1, Robert G Stuklis, David A Hett
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK. theo@velissaris.com
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|July 25, 2003
Abstract:
We describe the use of right pleurotomy combined with right pericardial release during off-pump coronary surgery. The maneuver releases the compression exerted on the right cardiac chambers during cardiac verticalization and improves hemodynamic stability during exposure of the posterior or lateral coronary vessels.