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Perioperative Avulsion of a Left Internal Mammary Artery Graft in a Patient with Syphilis

Avulsion of a graft after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery is a rare but very serious complication which leads to massive bleeding and possible life-threatening cardiac tamponade. In this paper we report a very rare case of a left internal mammary artery graft avulsion on the day of surgery i...

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Autores principales: Kaleda, Vasily I., Belash, Sergei A., Barsuk, Alexei V., Barbuhatti, Kirill O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/574346
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Sumario:Avulsion of a graft after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery is a rare but very serious complication which leads to massive bleeding and possible life-threatening cardiac tamponade. In this paper we report a very rare case of a left internal mammary artery graft avulsion on the day of surgery in a patient with syphilis.