Vascular Anastomosis by CO2 Laser

Okada M

Published on: 2022-12-04

Abstract

Lasers have been widely used in the field of medicine and surgery, and satisfactory results have been obtained in the several fields.

However, laser application are very rare in the field of cardiovascular surgery throughout the world. It has been reported for a long period that it is difficult to keep long-term patency after anastomosis of the conventional fashion with suture materials especially for small-caliber vessels. For 15 years, we have tried to perform aortocoronary bypasses in treating patients with ischemic heart disease. There are some problems about obtaining favorable surgical results by conventional suture method, especially in the cases with small-caliber branches of the coronary arteries. From this standpoint, a low energy CO₂ laser was used to perform coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).