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Application of End-to-end Anastomosis in Robotic Central Pancreatectomy
Published on: June 2, 2018
Totally endoscopic quadruple coronary artery bypass grafting is feasible using robotic technology
Johannes Bonatti1, Brody Wehman, Andreas R de Biasi
1Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. jbonatti@smail.umaryland.edu
Abstract:
Multivessel robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting is currently under development. Quadruple totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass has so far not been reported. A 75-year-old patient with multivessel coronary artery disease underwent daVinci Si-assisted completely endoscopic placement of a left internal mammary artery bypass to the left anterior descending artery and construction of a right internal mammary artery Y-graft off the left internal mammary artery to the posterior descending artery. The left internal mammary artery was also connected to a diagonal branch as a sequential graft. The obtuse marginal branch was revascularized using an endoscopically harvested vein graft originating from the left axillary artery.
