Approximately 91% underwent complete revascularization. On average, each person got 1.0 internal thoracic artery graft, 1.2 RA grafts, and 1.4 SV grafts.

The inclusion criteria were age ≤75 years, ejection fraction >35%, only one SVG per patient, bilateral internal thoracic arteries as a Y-graft on the left system (three-vessel disease, n = 817, 88.0%) ...

The internal thoracic artery (ITA) is the preferred conduit for surgical coronary artery revascularization because of superior long-term patency rates and observational evidence of improved long-term ...

Extrathoracic internal thoracic artery. Three-dimensional computed tomography angiogram demonstrating an initially intrathoracic left internal thoracic artery passing anterior to the third ...

Researchers observed a lower rate of all-cause death in the radial artery graft group compared with right internal thoracic artery graft group (22.2% vs. 30.1%; log rank P = .06; HR = 0.69; 95% CI ...

JAMA Surgery Source Reference: Gaudino M, et al "Operative outcomes of women undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery in the US, 2011 to 2020" JAMA Surg 2023; DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2022.8156.

Radial Artery Patency and Clinical Outcomes Study–Right Internal Thoracic Artery - RAPCO-RITA Nov 06, 2022 Print Font Size A A A Author/Summarized by Author: Anthony A. Bavry, MD,MPH,FACC Summary ...

In 1986, an observational study by Loop and colleagues 1 reported that the left internal thoracic artery (LITA) to left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) graft was associated with better ...

The most recent European guidelines on myocardial revascularization recommend a strategy that incorporates multiple arterial grafts in appropriately selected patients, with the additional arterial ...

According to the preoperative QFR value of the descending artery, the patients who undertook the left internal thoracic artery to the anterior descending artery bypass graft were divided into two ...

Abstract Internal thoracic artery aneurysms (ITAAs) are rare with wide variation in clinical presentation and a high risk of rupture. Endovascular techniques are increasingly being used for treatment ...