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Case Reports
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in an octogenarian with situs inversus and dextrocardia: report of a case.
- Hiroaki Takahashi, Kenji Okada, Masamichi Matsumori, and Yutaka Okita.
- Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0017, Japan.
- Surg. Today. 2011 Aug 1; 41 (8): 1130-2.
AbstractDextrocardia associated with situs inversus totalis is a rare condition. A small number of patients with the condition have been reported after undergoing myocardial revascularization. We experienced a case of this rare disorder in an 83-year-old man. He was successfully treated by off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting with bilateral internal thoracic arteries and a saphenous vein. Except for the mirror-image anatomy, the surgical technique was similar to that used for a patient with situs solitus.
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