Yalçınkaya, AdnanDiken, Adem İlkayYılmaz, SeyhanÇağlı, Kerim2019-05-132019-05-132017Yalçınkaya, A., Diken, A. İ., Yılmaz, S., Çağlı, K. (2017). A practical and inexpensive proximal anastomosis technique in calcified aorta. General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 65(1), 63-66.1863-6705https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-016-0675-7https://hdl.handle.net/11491/1749Patients with severely calcified aorta have high risk of atheroemboli and bleeding during cardiac surgery. Clamping the ascending aorta to initiate cardiac arrest or to perform proximal anastomosis is a challenging problem. Beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting without aortic clamping is usually accepted as the best solution. Herein, we present a feasible and inexpensive proximal anastomosis technique without using aortic clamps for patients with severely atherosclerotic aorta. © 2016, The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAtheroemboliCalcific AortaProximal AnastomosisArticle651636610.1007/s11748-016-0675-7N/AQ2