SHIMIZU Tatsuya    Department   Research Institutes and Facilities, Research Institutes and Facilities    Position   Professor
Article types	Original article
Language	English
Peer review	Non peer reviewed
Title	Chronic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery.
Journal	Formal name：Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) Abbreviation：Intern Med ISSN code：(0918-2918)0918-2918(Linking)
Volume, Issue, Page	36(7),pp.471-8
Author and coauthor	Sugishita K†, Shimizu T, Kinugawa K, Harada K, Ikenouchi H, Matsui H, Kohmoto O, Takahashi T, Omata M
Authorship	2nd author
Publication date	1997/07
Summary	We report 3 patients with chronic total occlusion of the left main coronary artery, which is considered to be very rare. In all three cases, coronary arteriograms showed a total occlusion of the left main coronary artery with good collaterals from the intact right coronary arteries. All of the patients underwent successful coronary artery bypass surgery; two of the cases were followed up for more than 10 years after the surgery. The Japanese literature is reviewed, and a comparison of foreign and Japanese cases is discussed.
PMID	9240495