February 4, 2011 (San Diego, California) — Results from 22 years of cases by surgeons in Melbourne, Australia, suggest that more cardiac surgeons should learn how to use the right internal thoracic ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio The 20-year patency rate for radial ...

CABG surgery using the internal thoracic arteries (ITAs) has been associated with postoperative morbidity, pain, and dysesthesia. Harvesting ITAs without removing the surrounding tissue ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio NEW ORLEANS — Patients with symptomatic ...

To the Editor: In an interim analysis of the Arterial Revascularization Trial (ART) at 5 years (Dec. 29 issue), 1 Taggart et al. found no significant differences in clinical outcomes between patients ...

Patient survival after CABG with bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafting is partially dependent on the proportion of myocardial mass supplied by the selected target vessels, according to a ...

New long-term data from the CSP 474 trial offers a challenge to some of the conventional wisdom around graft choice in CABG surgery and may further the debate over recent guideline recommendations.

Ischemic mitral regurgitation is defined as mitral insufficiency that occurs as a result of coronary artery disease in the absence of intrinsic structural abnormalities of the mitral valve. Ischemic ...