REVIEW ARTICLE
Year : 2014 | Volume
: 9 | Issue : 3 | Page : 138--143
Save or sacrifice the internal mammary pedicle during anterior mediastinotomy?
Efstratios Apostolakis1, Nikolaos A. Papakonstantinou2, Serafeim Chlapoutakis1, Christos Prokakis1
1 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece
2 Department of General Surgery, General Oncology Hospital of Kifi ssia "Agioi Anargyroi", 41 Kaliftaki Street, P.C. 14564, Kifissia, Athens, Greece
Correspondence Address:
Nikolaos A. Papakonstantinou
12 Zilon Street, Rizoupoli, 11142 Athens
Greece
Ligation and dissection of internal mammary vessels is the most under-estimated complication of anterior mediastinotomy. However, patients requiring anterior mediastinotomy may experience long survival that makes the development of ischemic heart disease throughout their life possible. Therefore, the un-judicial sacrifice of the internal mammary pedicle may deprive them from the benefit to have their internal mammary artery used as a graft in order to successfully bypass severe left anterior descending artery stenoses. We recommend the preservation of the internal mammary pedicle during anterior mediastinotomy, which should be a common message among our colleagues from the beginning of their training.
How to cite this article:
Apostolakis E, Papakonstantinou NA, Chlapoutakis S, Prokakis C. Save or sacrifice the internal mammary pedicle during anterior mediastinotomy?.Ann Thorac Med 2014;9:138-143
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Apostolakis E, Papakonstantinou NA, Chlapoutakis S, Prokakis C. Save or sacrifice the internal mammary pedicle during anterior mediastinotomy?. Ann Thorac Med [serial online] 2014 [cited 2023 Mar 24 ];9:138-143
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