Key result
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was successfully performed on a gastroepiploic artery graft, demonstrating a potential alternative to repeat surgical revascularization.
Case Report (n=1)
Successful PTCA of a gastroepiploic artery graft is feasible and may prevent the need for repeat surgical revascularization.
May avoid reoperation in select graft failures; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
The right gastroepiploic artery is being used as a third arterial conduit for coronary artery bypass surgery. Presented here is a case demonstrating successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of the gastroepiploic artery graft. This successful accomplishment may avoid repeat surgical revascularization in case of failure of the gastroepiploic artery graft, hence may encourage people to use it more often.
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Komiyama et al. (1990) conducted a case report in Failure of gastroepiploic artery graft (n=1). Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was evaluated on Successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was successfully performed on a gastroepiploic artery graft, demonstrating a potential alternative to repeat surgical revascularization.
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