Westaby S, Vaccari G, Katsumata T
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Oxford Heart Centre, The John Radcliffe Hospital, England.
Ann Thorac Surg. 1999 Oct;68(4):1401-3. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(99)00705-5.
We describe a novel method for surgical repair of giant right coronary aneurysm. Instead of aneurysm ligation and coronary bypass we mobilized the inflow and outflow and performed end-to-end anastomosis. This preserved the native vessel. Restudy in both patients confirmed the effectiveness of this technique.