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Surgical treatment for late postoperative radial artery graft spasm

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kosuyolu Heart and Research Hospital, Kadikoy, 81020 Istanbul, Turkey

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Hemodynamic instability due to late postoperative radial artery spasm is a rare phenomenon. This entity developed in our patient who was operated on for severe left main coronary artery stenosis with a dominant circumflex artery. The spasm could not be relieved with intraluminal vasodilator therapy, and the patient underwent reoperation using a saphenous vein graft-anastomosed distal to radial artery.

Key Words: Radial artery; Late spasm; Reoperation