Nevsun Pıhtılı Taş1, Rabia Aydoğan Baykara2

1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Elazığ Training and Research Hospital, Elazığ, Turkey
2Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Malatya Training and Research Hospital, Malatya, Turkey

Keywords: Pain, brachial plexus damage; coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Abstract

Brachial plexus injury is a complication that can be seen after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), especially median sternotomy. Brachial plexus injury was detected by clinical, examination, and electromyography in the presence of pain in the left arm who underwent CABG operation about 3 months ago. Our case was diagnosed early and improved with appropriate treatment. We are of the opinion that early diagnosis and treatment of a rare complication will lead to improvement in quality of life and improvement.