The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 57, 1645-1647, Copyright © 1994 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Coronary steal caused by a right gastroepiploic artery graft
M Kawasuji, H Tekemura, N Sakakibara, O Matsui and Y Watanabe
Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan.
We report a patient with coronary artery steal after gastroepiploic artery
grafting to the right coronary artery. The coronary artery steal syndrome
involves reversed flow in the gastroepiploic artery, which siphons blood
from the heart and results in myocardial ischemia.