Surgical Options to Tackle Coronary Artery Kinking in Thoracoscopic Left Atrial Appendage Clipping

Sevasti-Maria Chaldoupi; Samuel Heuts; Jindrich Vainer; Bart Maesen

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.12.039

Surgical Options to Tackle Coronary Artery Kinking in Thoracoscopic Left Atrial Appendage Clipping

Sevasti-Maria Chaldoupi, Samuel Heuts, Jindrich Vainer, Bart Maesen^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

To close the left atrial appendage during thoracoscopic ablation of atrial fibrillation, the use of a clipping device has proven to be an elegant and efficacious technique. Although very rare, adequate ostial appendage clipping can provoke coronary artery kinking and thus lead to cardiac ischemia. We describe a minimally invasive surgical technique to deal with this potentially serious complication. (C) 2020 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	E119-E121
Number of pages	3
Journal	Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Volume	110
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.12.039
Publication status	Published - Aug 2020

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