Coronary artery bypass surgery for patients with left main coronary lesions due to takayasu’s arteritis

Abstract

Two patients with documented Takayasu's arteritis and severe left maincoronary lesion were operated on. The first patient was a 17-year-old boyoperated with a double saphenous vein coronary artery bypass graft in 1982,the patient survived 12 years but died suddenly due to associated aorticinsufficiency. The second case was a 46-year-old female patient who wassuccessfully operated on.