Abstract
Five years ago, the left internal thoracic artery free segment was used as a coronary-coronary
bypass over a single, distal lesion of the large left anterior descending coronary
artery in a patient with triple vessel disease. The patient has recently been readmitted,
complaining of chest discomfort. Although he was scheduled for percutaneous coronary
intervention due to disease progression on the circumflex coronary artery, the perfect
angiographic patency of the arterial coronary-coronary conduit has been confirmed.
Key words
Coronary bypass surgery - cardiovascular surgery - heart disease
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Dr. MD, PhD, FETCS Dusko Nezic
“Dedinje” Cardiovascular Institute
Cardiac Surgery
Milana Tepica 1
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
Phone: + 38 11 13 60 16 31
Fax: + 38 11 12 66 63 92
Email: nezic@eunet.rs
