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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;59:770
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Thomas J. Vander Salm, MD

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See also page 768.

Economopoulos and colleagues provide the surgeon with one more valuable technique for the control of cardiac bleeding when the more conventional suturing techniques prove unfeasible because of tissue friability, edema, or calcification, or because of a tissue gap too large to bring together with sutures. The technique consists of applying to the source of bleeding either the right or left pericardial fat pad after it has been dissected away from the pericardium and phrenic nerve. This fat pad is harvested as a pedicle based on its . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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