Abstract
Patients with severely calcified aorta have high risk of atheroemboli and bleeding during cardiac surgery. Clamping the ascending aorta to initiate cardiac arrest or to perform proximal anastomosis is a challenging problem. Beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting without aortic clamping is usually accepted as the best solution. Herein, we present a feasible and inexpensive proximal anastomosis technique without using aortic clamps for patients with severely atherosclerotic aorta.
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Yalçınkaya, A., Diken, A.İ., Yılmaz, S. et al. A practical and inexpensive proximal anastomosis technique in calcified aorta. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 65, 63–66 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-016-0675-7
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