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The heart surgery forum · Jan 2007
How I do it: traction of ascending aorta with starfish heart positioner during proximal saphenous vein graft anastomosis using the PAS-Port system in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Satoru Nishida, Yujiro Kikuchi, Go Watanabe, Yoshiko Shintani, Shigeki Ito, Shigeki Tabata, and Kenji Kawachi.
- Division of Cardiac Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. snishida@k6.dion.ne.jp <snishida@k6.dion.ne.jp>
- Heart Surg Forum. 2007 Jan 1; 10 (4): E315-6.
AbstractThe PAS-Port system allows for the rapid deployment of a clampless proximal anastomosis between a saphenous vein graft and the aorta. We have developed a simple technique of establishing traction of the ascending aorta with the Starfish heart positioner during proximal saphenous vein anastomosis using the PAS-Port system in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.
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