Coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with severe coronary disease due to Kawasaki disease: a case report
Yamagishi, I.; Abe, T.; Kuribayashi, R.; Sekine, S.; Seki, K.; Shibata, T.
Kyobu Geka. Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery 49(2): 151-154
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-5252 PMID: 8691686 Document Number: 468066
A 14-year-old girl with severe coronary artery disease due to mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, "Kawasaki disease", admitted to our hospital. Though she had no angina on any effort in her daily life, coronary angiography (CAG) demonstrated 90% stenosis and a large aneurysm of left main trunk. Based on the CAG findings, we determined to do the coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) to left anterior descending artery (LAD) and 1st diagonal branch (D1) to prevent the occurrance of fatal acute myocardial infarction. We attempted to use bilateral internal thoracic arteries (ITAs) at the beginning of this surgery. While LAD was grafted with left one, D1 was done with saphenous vein (SV) because of difficulty of harvesting right one. The weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass was easy and the postoperative course was of no event. A month later, CAG showed the good patency of both left ITA and SV graft.