Successful coronary surgical stenting: a new hybrid approach

Our goal is to introduce a new hybrid coronary revascularization concept-coronary surgical stenting. The procedure was performed on a 78-year old woman with severe, long and calcified involvement of the proximal left anterior descending artery, chronic total occlusion of the mid-left anterior descending artery and severe disease in the distal left anterior descending artery. An off-pump minimally invasive procedure was performed through the fifth intercostal space, including concurrent surgical placement of a drug-eluting stent in the distal left anterior descending artery, through the left anterior descending artery graft incision, associated with the left internal mammary artery to the mid-left anterior descending artery graft. This procedure resulted in successful revascularization of the left anterior descending artery in a patient with complex coronary disease.