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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:251
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Axillary artery cannulation pitfalls

Giuseppe Rescigno, MD, Carlo Aratari, MD, FECTS, Marco L.S. Matteucci, MD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Lancisi Hospital–Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona, Italy

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the article by Orihashi and colleagues1Go concerning axillary artery cannulation pitfalls. We present another possible drawback of axillary artery cannulation. A 69-year-old woman was admitted to the Department of Cardiac Surgery for a type A acute aortic dissection involving the innominate artery. After the usual cannulation of the right axillary artery, with a prosthetic side graft, and the right atrium, cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) was established with no perfusion problems. At 26°C core temperature, CPB was arrested . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Kazumasa Orihashi, Taijiro Sueda, Kenji Okada, and Shinya Takahashi
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2009 138: 251-252. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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