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.

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 ...

Conventional CABG consists of three or four bypass grafts where one graft is the left internal mammary (thoracic) artery and the others usually all come from the saphenous veins in the legs ...

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.

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 ...

MUNICH, Germany (UPDATED)—Surgeons expecting to see a win for bilateral internal-thoracic artery (ITA) grafts at the 10-year mark in the Arterial Revascularization Trial (ART) will be disappointed ...

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This innovative approach entails robotic harvest of the internal mammary artery and minimally invasive off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). About MIDCAB. Still mentions that the MIDCAB ...

"The radial artery is a good second option for grafting after the internal mammary artery because of its length, diameter, wall thickness and also because of the lack of harvest-site complications ...

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 ...

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 ...