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- Title
Thymic Fat Pad Flap to Cover the Left Internal Thoracic Artery Graft.
- Authors
Jelenc, Matija; Kneževič, Ivan
- Abstract
ABSTRACT With a skeletonized harvesting technique of the left internal thoracic artery (LITA), opening of the pleural space during dissection can usually be avoided. However, due to the bulging of the ventilated lungs, the LITA graft comes to lie immediately below the sternum at the end of the procedure, which makes it vulnerable to injury in case of a reoperation. The authors present a simple technique to move the skeletonized LITA graft away from the undersurface of the sternum, by using a thymic fat pad flap (TFP). doi: 10.1111/jocs.12153 (J Card Surg 2013;28:641-642)
- Subjects
THORACIC arteries; DISSECTION; STERNUM; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.
- Publication
Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 6, p641
- ISSN
0886-0440
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jocs.12153