Endoscopic Harvesting of Radial Artery Graft for Coronary Artery Bypass

Uchida, Atsushi; Hochberg, Júlio; Terada, Yasushi; Fukuda, Ikuo; Cruzzavala, Jose; Gonzalez-Cruz, Roberto; Vicente, M.; Nakayama, Yoshio

doi:10.1097/00000637-199811000-00001

Cited by 6 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…2 Because endoscopic vein harvesting has proved to be advantageous over the conventional harvesting technique, [3][4][5][6] attempts have been made to develop techniques for endoscopic RA harvesting since 1998. [7][8][9][10] Because of the anatomic tight relations of the RA to the accompanying nerves, there are concerns about neurologic symptoms after nerve injury at the forearm when dissecting the RA. Two afferent nerves are mainly susceptible for damage during RA harvesting: the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve (LACN), which has a superfascial position and might be injured by the forearm skin incision and subcutaneous dissection, and the superficial radial nerve (SRN), which has a tight relation to the RA at the distal forearm.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neurologic sequelae of the donor arm after endoscopic versus conventional radial artery harvesting

Bleiziffer

Hettich

Eisenhauer

et al. 2008

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

After endoscopic radial artery harvesting, impaired sensibility in the region of the superficial radial nerve and paresthesia are more frequent than after the open procedure. However, in contrast to the sequelae of the open procedure, wound revision and injury of the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve did not occur. Because of the excellent cosmetic results and avoidance of wound complications, we have opted to use endoscopic radial artery harvesting as the technique of choice, despite the higher incidence of sensory disturbances.

show abstract