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Coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with situs inversus totalis and dextrocardia

Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital anomaly. We report a 78 year old woman with this condition and ischemic coronary artery disease who underwent myocardial revascularisation. The cardiac catheterism showed severe proximal stenosis with aneurysms in the interventricular, diagonal and right coronary. The procedure was done with the surgeon positioned in the left hand side of the patient, with the righ internal thoracic artery anastomosed to the interventricular artery and two more vein grafts. Very few cases were reported in the world and this is the third case in Brazil and the first in the world with coronary aneurysms.

Dextrocardia; Situs inversus; Coronary disease; Myocardial revascularization


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