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Starfish heart positioner and harmonic scalpel for redo off-pump coronary bypass
Hiroshi Niinami1, Yuji Suda, Yasuo Takeuchi
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Daini Hospital, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 2-1-10 Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-8567, Japan. niinamca@dnh.twmu.ac.jp
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|July 25, 2003
Abstract:
In a redo off-pump coronary artery bypass operation through a repeat median sternotomy, use of the Starfish Heart Positioner in combination with the Harmonic Scalpel may facilitate dissection of adhesions without hemodynamic impairment.