Extraanatomic Bypass for Recurrent Aortic Coarctation Involving the Arch and Replacement of the Ascending Aorta via Sternotomy

Andrea Blasio; Stefano Benussi; Lorenzo Arcobasso; Ottavio Alfieri

doi:10.1097/01243895-200600140-00008

Extraanatomic Bypass for Recurrent Aortic Coarctation Involving the Arch and Replacement of the Ascending Aorta via Sternotomy

Innovations (Phila). 2006 Summer;1(4):167-8. doi: 10.1097/01243895-200600140-00008.

Authors

Andrea Blasio¹, Stefano Benussi, Lorenzo Arcobasso, Ottavio Alfieri

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, S. Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy.

PMID: 22436679
DOI: 10.1097/01243895-200600140-00008

Abstract

A suction device, currently used to lift the heart in off-pump coronary surgery, was used to facilitate an extraanatomic bypass grafting procedure in a patient with recoarctation of the aorta, hypoplasia of the aortic arch, and dilatation of the ascending aorta.