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Immobilization of ascending aorta with starfish positioner in off-pump CABG
Tamotsu Yasuda1, Go Watanabe, Shigeyuki Tomita
1Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan. tamotsuyasuda@aol.com
The Heart Surgery Forum
|December 2, 2005
Abstract:
We describe an easy and simple way to immobilize the ascending aorta with the Starfish heart positioner during proximal anastomosis in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.

