Arterial myocardial revascularization with right internal thoracic artery and epigastric artery in a patient with Leriche's syndrome

Dmitry Bobylev; Felix Fleissner; Ruoyu Zhang; Axel Haverich; Issam Ismail

doi:10.1186/1749-8090-8-53

Arterial myocardial revascularization with right internal thoracic artery and epigastric artery in a patient with Leriche's syndrome

J Cardiothorac Surg. 2013 Mar 23:8:53. doi: 10.1186/1749-8090-8-53.

Authors

Dmitry Bobylev¹, Felix Fleissner, Ruoyu Zhang, Axel Haverich, Issam Ismail

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg Str, 1, Hannover 30625, Germany. Bobylev.Dmitry@mh-hannover.de

Abstract

Concomitant coronary artery disease (CAD) and Leriche's syndrome is clinical scenario which poses a challenge to cardiovascular surgeons. This report describes a case of arterial myocardial revascularization in a patient with CAD and Leriche's syndrome by means of right internal thoracic artery harvested with right epigastric artery in situ fashion, performed in addition to simultaneous aorto-bifemoral bypass.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Epigastric Arteries / surgery*
Humans
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
Leriche Syndrome / pathology
Leriche Syndrome / physiopathology*
Male
Mammary Arteries / surgery*
Myocardial Revascularization / methods*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed