Abstract
Beating coronary artery bypass grafting could be performed for a 47-year-old man with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 9.3%. Post-operative LVEF was improved to 51.6%. Conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) used to be contraindicative for patients with LVEF below 20%. Recently, such patients are involved to indication of off-pump CABG (OPCAB) or beating CABG, because we consider OPCAB are lower complications than conventional CABG. We were able to bypass the circumflex for the patient while we had been used percutaneous cardio-pulmonary support (PCPS). We could perform beating coronary artery bypass grafting for a patient of the low LVEF.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1129-1132 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 13 |
State | Published - 2002/12 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine