TY - JOUR AU - Yasuda, Tamotsu AU - Watanabe, Go AU - Tomita, Shigeyuki PY - 2005/06/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Novel Figure A-Shape Sternal Retractor for Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting JF - The Heart Surgery Forum JA - HSF VL - 8 IS - 4 SE - DO - 10.1532/HSF98.20051120 UR - https://journal.hsforum.com/index.php/HSF/article/view/1103 SP - E196-E197 AB - A novel figure A-shape sternal retractor was developed to avoid brachial plexus injury caused by sternal wide separation, and facilitate exposure of circumflex artery by elevating a rake and dropping the heart into the right pleural cavity during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. In addition, it has several notches to hold deep pericardial stitches in order to enhance the exposure. ER -