For many years, the surgeon's graft of choice for patients undergoing CABG surgery has been the left internal mammary (thoracic) artery (LIMA).

The right internal mammary artery should be used as the second conduit in CABG, a new study suggests, while another study provides support for total arterial revascularization.

Bilateral internal thoracic artery versus single internal thoracic artery plus radial artery: A double meta-analytic approach, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 167, 1, (183-195 ...

Internal mammary artery graft to the left anterior descending to that most important vessel in the front of the heart has about a 95 percent chance of being open ten years after your bypass operation.

TCT 659: PCI of a Left Anterior Descending Artery CTO Through Left Internal Mammary Artery Graft. Presenter: Harinder Bali, MD . October 14, 2020. REGISTER for free or LOG IN to view this content.

A coronary artery bypass graft is an open-heart surgical procedure for treating blocked coronary arteries that ... (NYU) utilized an internal mammary artery (blood vessel) for grafting, instead of ...

Registry data show that only about 5% of bypass procedures in the US and 11% in Australia use the RITA, also known as the right internal mammary artery graft, even though it is biologically ...

Arterial grafts are thought to be better conduits than saphenous vein grafts for CABG based on experience with using the left internal mammary (breast) artery to bypass the left anterior ...

Among patients undergoing multivessel CABG with a left internal thoracic (mammary) artery, those receiving a second arterial graft—especially when it’s a radial artery—fare better through 5 years of ...

Nagpur: More and more cardiac surgeons in city are gradually adopting the bilateral (both sides) internal mammary arteries (BIMA) technique for performing a coronary arterial bypass graft (CABG ...

Grafts are usually constructed from lengths of the patient's own long saphenous vein or their internal mammary artery, although other vessels are also used. 2.8 Cardiac surgeons use a variety of ...