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Acute occlusion of coronary artery bypass graft with nonionic contrast medium

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The use of nonionic contrast media should be beneficial in patients with cardiac disease because such media are less chemotoxic. Using iopamidol under heparinization, we treated 4 casss of acute thromboembolic occurrence including occlusion of coronary artery bypass grafts and associated native coronary arteries. While the majority of patients do not experience this complication, care must be taken to avoid major adverse effects.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women’ Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, 162-8666, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuko Tomizawa, Masahiro Endo, Hiroshi Nishida & Hitoshi Koyanagi

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  1. Yasuko Tomizawa
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Read at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery, Hiroshima, July 1–2 1999.

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Tomizawa, Y., Endo, M., Nishida, H. et al. Acute occlusion of coronary artery bypass graft with nonionic contrast medium. Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 50, 181–183 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02913202

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