MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIRECT CORONARY-ARTERY BYPASS - A SURGICAL APPROACH FOR ANOMALOUS RIGHT CORONARY-ARTERY FROM LEFT AORTIC SINUS OF VALSALVA

Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left aortic sin us of Valsalva, although rare, has been associated with myocardial isc hemia and sudden death. Methods of surgical correction include ostial reconstruction, excision and translocation of the vessel origin, and c oronary artery bypass grafting. We describe a 39-year-old man with sym ptoms of myocardial ischemia and an anomalous right coronary artery in whom we performed the new, minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass procedure with use of the right internal mammary artery.