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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:314-316
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Repair of a left main coronary artery aneurysm using the circumflex femoral artery as a Y-interposition graft

Curtis A. Anderson, MDa, Farzan Filsoufi, MDb, Alexander Kadner, MDa, David H. Adams, MDb*

a Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
b Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

Accepted for publication October 2, 2002.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Adams, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1190 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029, USA;
e-mail: david.adams{at}mountsinai.org

Left main coronary artery aneurysms are rare, and treatment options are poorly defined. Here we report the surgical management of a female patient who presented with an acute coronary syndrome resulting from dissection of an aneurysmal left main. She was successfully managed with an interposition graft fashioned from the lateral femoral circumflex artery.




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