CORONARY SURGERY THROUGH MINI-THORACOTOMY ON BEATING HEART WITHOUT CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS

Authors
BELOV YV
Citation
Yv. Belov, CORONARY SURGERY THROUGH MINI-THORACOTOMY ON BEATING HEART WITHOUT CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS, Kardiologia, 38(8), 1998, pp. 12-17
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Kardiologia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00229040
Volume
38
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
12 - 17
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-9040(1998)38:8<12:CSTMOB>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
In 19 of 61 patients subjected to coronary artery bypass surgery betwe en September and December 1997 left internal mammary artery and left a nterior descending artery were anastomosed on a beating heart without cardiopulmonary bypass, Most of these patients had contraindications t o conventional surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Sternotomy was eve ntually required in 1 patient while in other 18 patients operative cou rse was uneventful.