Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting via median sternotomy in a patient with a history of esophagectomy with substernal gastric tube reconstruction: report of a case

Surg Today. 2015 Sep;45(9):1190-3. doi: 10.1007/s00595-014-1057-3. Epub 2014 Oct 29.

Abstract

We performed successful off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) in a patient with unstable angina caused by triple-vessel disease, who had undergone esophagectomy with substernal gastric tube reconstruction for esophageal cancer 40 years earlier. Preoperative multidetector-row computed tomography was done to evaluate the course of the gastric tube and also that of the gastroepiploic artery, which feeds the gastric tube. Following careful sternal re-entry and adequate dissection, OPCAB was performed safely via a median sternotomy without injuring the gastric tube or causing hemodynamic instability. The patient had an uneventful early postoperative course.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Angina, Unstable / surgery*
  • Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / methods*
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Esophagectomy*
  • Gastrostomy / methods*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Multidetector Computed Tomography
  • Plastic Surgery Procedures / methods*
  • Sternotomy / methods*
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome