Thoracoscopic Internal Thoracic Artery Harvest: Angiographic Assessment

Author:

Hirata Nobuaki,Ohtake Shigeaki,Sawa Yoshiki,Yoshitatsu Masao,Kato Hiroshi1,Ohkubo Nobukazu1,Matsuda Hikaru

Affiliation:

1. Division of Cardiovascular Surgery Toyonaka Municipal Hospital Osaka, Japan

Abstract

Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting was carried out in 10 patients. The left internal thoracic artery was mobilized under direct vision in the first 5 and by thoracoscopy in the next 5. Postoperative arteriography confirmed the advantage of thoracoscopic arterial harvest. The length of the thoracoscopically harvested artery was 10 ± 2 cm compared to 6 ± 1 cm for grafts harvested under direct vision (p < 0.05). The anastomotic angle between the internal thoracic artery and the left anterior descending coronary artery was 43° ± 4° for thoracoscopically harvested grafts versus 62° ± 5° for the direct vision method (p < 0.05). One anastomotic complication (occlusion) was found in a patient who had arterial harvest under direct vision. Internal thoracic artery harvested by thoracoscopy diverges from the chest wall and runs directly to the anastomotic site. Such a conduit harvested by direct vision runs along the chest wall until near the anastomotic site, which might increase the risk of anastomotic complications.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine,General Medicine,Surgery

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