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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sreenivasan J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035848 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Case reports in cardiology 20180624
Iatrogenic aortocoronary arteriovenous fistula is a very rare complication of coronary artery bypass grafting in which one of the arterial grafts inadvertently forms a fistulous tract with a cardiac vein, shunting blood from the anastomosed coronary artery. We report a patient with an iatrogenic left internal mammary artery graft to cardiac vein fistula presenting with recurrent angina three years after a three-vessel coronary artery bypass grafting. ...[more]