| Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
in Situs Inversus Totalis |
(Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagaoka Red
Cross Hospital, Nagaoka, Japan)
| Kenji Aoki |
Fumiaki Oguma |
Masaaki Sugawara |
| Hiroyuki Hirahara |
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Cardiovascular surgery in situs
inversus totalis (SIT) is unusual. We report a case of coronary
artery bypass grafting (CABG) in SIT. A 67-year-old man with
unstable angina pectoris was admitted to our hospital. Coronary
arteriography demonstrated three-vessel disease in the mirror-image
heart. CABG with 4 distal anastomosis was carried out with conventional
methods. Careful observation based on complete understanding
for preoperative images could minimize operative difficulties
caused by mirror-image heart.
Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 34: 152-155 (2005) |
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