Surgical treatment of chronic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery: a case report

Koray Aykut,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.066

Koray Aykut¹, Coşkun Özdemir¹, Yusuf Altınkaynak², Ünal Açıkel¹

¹Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Special Ege Hospital, Denizli, Turkey
²Departments of Cardiology, Special Ege Hospital, Denizli, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.066

In this report, we present a case who was admitted to our hospital with complaints of effort-induced mild chest pain and palpitation. Although rarely seen, chronic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery was detected. After a successful coronary artery bypass graft surgery in which the left internal mammary artery was anastomosed to the left anterior descending artery and a saphenous vein graft to the circumflex artery, the patient recovered well. He remained asymptomatic within a follow-up period of six months after the surgical treatment.

Keywords : Coronary angiography; coronary artery bypass grafting; left main coronary artery

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