Wayangankar Siddharth A, Saucedo Jorge F
aDepartment of Internal Medicine bSection of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown). 2015 Jan;16 Suppl 1:S45-8. doi: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e328339d957.
Unintended graft anastamosis to coronary veins after coronary artery bypass surgery is an extraordinarily rare complication. The following case report involves the unintended grafting of a saphenous vein to the coronary sinus rather than the intended arterial target during coronary artery bypass surgery, and the subsequent physiologic consequences and clinical management.