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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 1989
Sunao Watanabe; Koyanagi H; Masahiro Endo; Yoko Yagi; Akira Shiikawa; Hiroshi Kasanuki
An epicardial approach has been developed and applied to 31 Kent bundles (23 parietal, 1 right anteroseptal, and 7 posteroseptal bundles) in 28 patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Our technique consists of dissection of the atrioventricular fat pad of the Kent bundle site using an ultrasonic aspirator and subsequent cryosurgical ablation. For the left parietal and posteroseptal pathways, the apex of the heart has to be retracted upward, but this maneuver was well tolerated in all patients. Moreover, even through a narrow operative field, the ultrasonic aspirator permitted deliberate dissection on the beating heart without injury to major coronary vessels or the atrial wall. In 89% of the patients, operation was performed without the use of heart-lung bypass. All patients were free from preexcitation. With this technique, all Kent bundles except that adjacent to the atrioventricular node can be ablated on the beating heart, usually without heart-lung bypass.
Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition | 1990
Yoko Yagi; Sunao Watanabe; Akira Shiikawa; Hideaki Nakano; Kazuhide Hayashi; Masahiro Endo; Koyanagi H; Hiroshi Kasanuki; Satoshi Ohnishi; Shigeki Inaba; Jun Umemura
THE JOURNAL OF JAPAN SOCIETY FOR LASER SURGERY AND MEDICINE | 1989
Hideaki Nakano; Akira Shiikawa; Kazuhide Hayashi; Sunao Watanabe; Yoko Yagi; Masahiro Endo; Koyanagi H
Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition | 1989
Satoshi Ohnishi; Hiroshi Kasanuki; Thoru Tanaka; Jun Umemura; Nobuhisa Hagiwara; Sunao Watanabe; Akira Shiikawa; Yoko Yagi; Koyanagi H; Saichi Hosoda
Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition | 1989
Yoko Yagi; Janes L. Cox
Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition | 1989
Akira Shiikawa; Sunao Watanabe; Yoko Yagi; Koyanagi H; Sigeki Inaba; Satoru Ohnishi; Hiroshi Kasanuki; Tadayuki Simakura
Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition | 1987
Akira Shiikawa; Sunao Watanabe; Yoko Yagi; Hiroshi Nishida; Kiyoharu Nakano; Masahiro Endo; Koyanagi H; Etsuko Tanaka; Satoru Ohnishi; Hiroshi Kasanuki
Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition | 1986
Sunao Watanabe; Yoko Yagi; Akira Shiikawa; Hiromi Kurosawa; Masahiro Endo; Koyanagi H; Hiroshi Kasanuki; Keizo Tanaka
Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition | 1985
Yoko Yagi; Hiromi Kurosawa; Sunao Watanabe; Akira Shiikawa; Koyanagi H; Hiroshi Kasanuki
Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition | 1984
Yoko Yagi; Hiromi Kurosawa; Koyanagi H