Lateral femoral circumflex artery for coronary artery bypass surgery in a patient receiving hemodialysis: report of a case

摘要

A 59-year-old man receiving hemodialysis had a 2-vessel coronary disease. We performed double coronary artery bypass grafting with the left internal thoracic artery to the left anterior descending artery, and the composite graft of right internal thoracic artery and lateral femoral circumflex artery to the right coronary artery. Postoperative coronary angiogram showed that the LFCA bypass graft was widely patent and supplied sufficient blood to the anastomosed vessel. There was no stenosis at the anastomotic site. He had no postoperative complication. Long-term follow-up and more cases is necessary to establish the usefulness of LFCA as an arterial free graft for coronary revascularization in patients receiving hemodialysis.