[Emergency aorto-coronary bypass. Indications and results in a homogenous series of 50 patients].

Emergency myocardial vascularization through an aorta-to-coronary by-pass has been extended recently to acute evolutive accidents of coronary artery disease: either to its minor forms, as the menace syndrome, or its more severe forms, such as complicated myocardial infarction. This study aimed at a retrospective analysis of 50 patients, all operated upon as an emergency, by the same surgical team. The problems peculiar to any group of indications, and the practical and theoretical problems posed by extension of this type of emergency surgery were discussed.