Revival of the side-to-side approach for distal coronary anastomosis
Min-Ho Song1, Yoshiyuki Tokuda, Toshiaki Ito
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Gifu Prefectural Tajimi Hospital, Tajimi, Gifu, Japan. p41558@govt.pref.gifu.jp
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
|January 9, 2007
Abstract:
Side-to-side anastomosis was employed by just ten proportional stitches while performing distal anastomosis during coronary artery surgery. This technique is simple and quick. Here this simple technique is described in detail and the postoperative status of grafted conduits is reported.


