Sato F, Terada Y, Moriki N, Watanabe K, Matsuzaki K, Shigeta O, Atsumi N, Jikuya T, Sakakibara Y, Mitsui T
Department of Surgery, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. 1999 Sep;52(10):814-7.
A 46-year-old man had a three-vessel coronary disease. We performed quadruple coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with the left internal thoracic artery (LITA), right gastroepiploic artery (RGEA), saphenous vein and lateral femoral circumflex artery (LFCA). Postoperative coronary angiogram showed that the LFCA bypass graft was patent and supplied sufficient blood to the anastomosed vessel. There was no stenosis at the anastomotic site. However, the LFCA graft showed a string sign. Long-term follow-up and angiographic studies is necessary to establish the use of LFCA as an arterial free graft for coronary revascularization.
