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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:2212-2213
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Thanos Athanasiou, MD, PhDa, Omer Aziz, FRCSa, Roberto Casula, FECTSa, Brian Glenville, FRCSa

a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Mary's Hospital, London, 70 St. Olaf's Rd, Fulham, London, SW6 7DN, UK

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The advent of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) has led to the development of specialized devices that stabilize the heart (epicardial and apical suction devices). We [1, 2] have previously reported our experience with the expanded use of these stabilizers in situations that would otherwise require cardiopulmonary bypass, such as pericardiectomy, division of adhesions, redo operations, penetrating trauma of the posterior and inferior left ventricular wall, epicardial microwave ablation for chronic atrial fibrillation, and extra-anatomic aortic–aortic bypass in recurrent aortic coarctation. Motallebzadeh and Kanagasabay have added to this list in using stabilization devices as tissue . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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