CASE REPORTS   

Chirurgia 2014 December;27(6):353-5

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Acute coronary artery occlusion related with intracoronary shunt after off-pump coronary artery bypass

Jalilov A., Merzlyakov V., Klyuchnikov I., Zhelikhazheva M., Alisher M.

Bakoulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Moscow, Russia

We report the case of a patient who had acute right coronary artery occlusion caused by such an intracoronary shunt as a result of intimal injury to the coronary artery after off pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) which required re-bypass and it has been successfully carried out.