(1992) A quantitative study of postoperative luminal narrowing of the
internal thoracic artery graft in coronary artery bypass surgery.
As in the right counterpart, this branch originates in the
internal thoracic artery at 1.5 cm from its origin.
To our knowledge, this case represents the eighth report in the world literature of a patient with chylothorax following
internal thoracic artery implantation for coronary artery bypass.[10,13,18-23] In the previous seven cases, four required thoracotomy for resolution while three responded to conservative management, and all survived.
Skeletonized
internal thoracic artery harvest improves prognosis in high-risk population after coronary artery bypass surgery for good quality grafts.
At the beginning of the video--anastomosis of the left
internal thoracic artery to left anterior descending artery; 1:30th minute--mini-pericardiotomy for anastomosis of the proximal right coronary artery (RCA); the 2nd minute--the RCA artery is clearly visualized during the procedure.
Angiography revealed that left
internal thoracic artery (LITA) graft to left anterior descending artery (LAD) and saphenous vein grafts to posterior descending artery (PDA) branch of the right coronary artery (RCA) and second obtuse marginal (OM) branch of the circumflex artery (CX) correspondingly were patent.
The
internal thoracic artery was ligated at both the ends and the intercostal arteries were electro-cauterised.
Pharmacological dilatation of the
internal thoracic artery during coronary artery bypass surgery.
Weiglain (1996) reported a case wherein the right inferior thyroid artery was replaced by an artery branching off from the right
internal thoracic artery and the left inferior thyroid artery was replaced by an artery, a branch of vertebral artery.
Surgeons may be reluctant and cautious about using
internal thoracic artery as a site of intervention for myocardial revascularization in patients with a history of thoracic radiotherapy.
The patient underwent myocardial revascularization and anastomosis of the left
internal thoracic artery to the left anterior descending artery was performed on the beating heart via median sternotomy.
The left
internal thoracic artery (LITA) has long been established as the graft of choice for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery1.