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Is Coronary Graft Doppler More Sensitive for Indiviual Graft Flows Than TEE During CABG Surgery?
Author(s) -
Morin JeanFrancois,
Mistry Bergez F.,
Knowlton Lisa
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00423.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , artery , doppler effect , mammary artery , doppler echocardiography , surgery , diastole , blood pressure , physics , astronomy
In this case report we describe a situation where despite a normal TEE exam immediately postcardiopulmonary bypass, there was no flow in the left internal mammary artery graft to the left anterior descending artery. This was picked up by coronary Doppler and subsequently repaired.