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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep 2022; 11(01): e14-e16
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1739186
Case Report: Cardiac

Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Minimally Invasive CABG Management in COPD

Anna Kathrin Assmann
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Artur Lichtenberg
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Alexander Assmann
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Abstract

Background Off-pump multi-arterial minimally invasive coronary surgery via anterolateral mini-thoracotomy has become a feasible and safe procedure.

Case Description We report on a 61-year-old patient with a coronary one-vessel disease with severely stenotic left anterior descending artery and diagonal branch, additionally suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with severely impaired lung function. Using a fan technique allowing for double lung ventilation, the patient was successfully operated grafting both internal thoracic arteries via a left anterolateral mini-thoracotomy.

Conclusion Anaortic, minimally invasive off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting is an excellent technique to achieve myocardial revascularization with both internal thoracic arteries even in patients with impaired lung function.

Keywords

coronary artery bypass grafting - off-pump CABG - LITA - RITA - minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Authors' Contributions

A.K.A. contributed toward drafting the manuscript and visualization. A.L. did the review, editing, and collected the resources. A.A. contributed toward the conception of work, performed the operation, and critical revision of the article.




Publication History

Received: 27 June 2021

Accepted: 20 July 2021

Article published online:
02 February 2022

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