Myocardial revascularization and bilateral lung transplantation without cardiopulmonary bypass
Khatchatourian, Gregory ; Chevalley, Catherine ; Spiliopoulos, Anastase ; Licker, Marc
In: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2001, vol. 20, no. 5, p. 1042-1044
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- Coronary artery disease is occasionally encountered in lung transplant recipients and is a risk factor for perioperative complications and poor survival. Besides combined heart-lung transplantation, various techniques of myocardial revascularization can be performed before, or at the time of lung transplantation. We report herein a patient with end-stage bronchoemphysema and two-vessel coronary disease who underwent ‘off-pump' coronary artery bypass graft immediately followed by bilateral lung transplantation