Cardiac Luxation to Facilitate Off-Pump Bilateral Lung Transplantation

To facilitate access to the left hilum during off-pump bilateral lung transplantation we used the Xpose 4™ apical suction device (Guidant Corp., Indianapolis, IN), an off-pump coronary bypass device to luxate the heart out of the pericardium. The effects on circulation and possible myocardial injury...

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Published inThe Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 329 - 330
Main Authors Visser, Hester T., MD, Erasmus, Michiel E., MD, PhD, Ebels, Tjark, MD, PhD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Elsevier Inc 2007
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Blood Pressure
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump - instrumentation
Humans
Lung Transplantation - methods
Medical sciences
Suction - instrumentation
Surgery
Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases
Surgery of the heart
Surgery of the respiratory system
Troponin I - blood
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Heart
Luxation
Treatment
Respiratory disease
Surgery
Lung
Graft
Bilateral
Thorax
Transplantation
Homotransplantation
Pump
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Summary:To facilitate access to the left hilum during off-pump bilateral lung transplantation we used the Xpose 4™ apical suction device (Guidant Corp., Indianapolis, IN), an off-pump coronary bypass device to luxate the heart out of the pericardium. The effects on circulation and possible myocardial injury were studied in retrospect. We found the device to provide us with an elegant and nondamaging method to visualize the left hilum.
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ISSN:0003-4975
1552-6259
DOI:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.071