Blasio Andrea, Benussi Stefano, Arcobasso Lorenzo, Alfieri Ottavio
Division of Cardiac Surgery, S. Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Innovations (Phila). 2006 Summer;1(4):167-8. doi: 10.1097/01243895-200600140-00008.
A suction device, currently used to lift the heart in off-pump coronary surgery, was used to facilitate an extraanatomic bypass grafting procedure in a patient with recoarctation of the aorta, hypoplasia of the aortic arch, and dilatation of the ascending aorta.