Breast Necrosis Following Coronary by Pass Graft Surgery: Report of Two Cases & Review of Literature - World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

WJCS > Vol.3 No.7, November 2013

Breast Necrosis Following Coronary by Pass Graft Surgery: Report of Two Cases & Review of Literature ()

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DOI: 10.4236/wjcs.2013.37042 5,129 Downloads 7,673 Views Citations

Author(s)

Maha Abdel Hadi, Yasir Ghonemi, Mohammed Regal, Saeed Al Shomimi

Affiliation(s)

Breast & Cardiothoracic Surgery Divisions, Department of Surgery, University of Dammam, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT

Breast is an external organ with abundant blood supply which renders it vulnerable to many inflammatory or neoplastic conditions, yet it remains immune to ischemia. Various chest wall surgical procedures may directly or indirectly affect the breast or its overlying skin. Cardiac surgery with its designed incisions is closely related to the breast terrain. Breast necrosis is very rare and only few cases were reported in the literature. We report two cases of breast necrosis in diabetic patients following cardiac bypass surgery. This emerging quandary is an alert to cardiothoracic surgeons to generate special preparation for a subset of patients prior to cardiac surgical procedures in order to minimize the occurrence of ischemia.

KEYWORDS

Breast Necrosis; Cardiac Bypass Surgery; Complications

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Hadi, M. , Ghonemi, Y. , Regal, M. and Shomimi, S. (2013) Breast Necrosis Following Coronary by Pass Graft Surgery: Report of Two Cases & Review of Literature. World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 3, 215-218. doi: 10.4236/wjcs.2013.37042.

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