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Surgical management of instrumentation-induced coronary artery dissection
F Robicsek1, R M Bersin, G Kowalchuk
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Carolinas Heart Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
The mechanism of instrument-induced coronary artery dissections (IICDs) is briefly presented. Depending on the coronary anatomy, three different situations that may occur are distinguished: (1) major coronary branches between the site of dissection and planned anastomosis; (2) no important collaterals at the same location; and (3) perforation of the coronary artery. Surgical methods applicable to each for the correction of these situations is presented.