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Funnel graft to innominate vein to control epicardial bleeding
1Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06437, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 4, 1998
Abstract:
A simple technique to control severe epicardial bleeding is described. This technique constructs a "funnel graft" to deliver shed blood into the venous system. This technique was lifesaving during pericardiectomy in a critically ill patient with acute presentation of constrictive pericarditis.