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Surgical Swine Model of Chronic Cardiac Ischemia Treated by Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Published on: March 27, 2018
[Coronary artery bypass grafting after total esophagectomy]
Seiji Ichikawa1, Fumihiko Murakami
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Meijo Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
Abstract:
A 69-year-old male with a history of total esophagectomy and substernal placement of the gastric tube for esophageal carcinoma was admitted due to an unstable angina. Cardiac catheterization revealed a severe stenosis just proximal to the left anterior descending coronary artery and a 75% stenosis of the right coronary artery. Intraaortic balloon pumping was started in the catheter laboratory. Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting was performed through left thoracotomy. The left internal mammary artery could not be utilized as a bypass graft to the left anterior descending artery due to severe substernal adhesion. Percutaneous coronary intervention was selected for the revascularization of the right coronary artery lesion.
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