A 58-year-old male patient undergoing for coronary reoperative surgery had hemodynamic instability associated with intractable ventricular fibrillation after induction of anesthesia before starting the surgery. Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass surgery with left internal mammary artery-to-left anterior descending coronary artery anastomosis under percutaneous left femoral artery-to-left femoral vein cardiopulmonary bypass was employed successfully as a life saving measure.
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