• The heart surgery forum · Jun 2009

    Case Reports

    Poor left ventricular function is not a contraindication for robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting.

    • Atiq Rehman, Jose Garcia, Seema Deshpande, Mollie Fitzpatrick, Patrick Odonkor, David Zimrin, Bartley Griffith, and Johannes Bonatti.
    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21201-1595, USA.
    • Heart Surg Forum. 2009 Jun 1; 12 (3): E152-4.

    AbstractRobotic technology has enabled performance of totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting (TECABG). Published series on TECABG were primarily performed in low-risk patients, and little is known about the outcome after totally endoscopic coronary surgery in patients with severely impaired left ventricular function. We report successful endoscopic placement of a left internal mammary artery bypass graft to the left anterior descending artery using the daVinci robotic system in a patient with a severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction.

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