Gregoric Igor D, Nolen Michael T, Ksela Jus, Chandler Linda B, Messner Gregory N, Cervera Roberto D, Smart Frank W, Delgado Reynolds M, Frazier O H
The Cardiopulmonary Transplant Service, Texas Heart Institute, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Tex Heart Inst J. 2005;32(3):434-6.
A 57-year-old man, who had received a heart transplant 14 years earlier, underwent coronary artery bypass grafting and transmyocardial laser revascularization for left main, left anterior descending, and circumflex coronary artery disease. The procedures were performed through a left thoracotomy incision without cardiopulmonary bypass. Because the patient was of the Jehovah's Witness faith, no blood or blood products were transfused.