Surgical treatment for late postoperative radial artery graft spasm.

Abstract

Hemodynamic instability due to late postoperative radial artery spasm is a rare phenomenon. This entity developed in our patient who was operated on for severe left main coronary artery stenosis with a dominant circumflex artery. The spasm could not be relieved with intraluminal vasodilator therapy, and the patient underwent reoperation using a saphenous vein graft-anastomosed distal to radial artery.

• Authors: Denyan Mansuroglu, Suat Nail Omeroglu, Bahadir Daglar, Gokhan Ipek
• Journal: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg) Vol. 2 Issue 4 Pg. 653-6 (Dec 2003) ISSN: 1569-9285 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 17670149 (Publication Type: Journal Article)