Technical aspects of composite arterial grafting with double skeletonized internal thoracic arteries

Chest

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1348-1354

  Pevni, Dmitry ^a,b   Mohr, Rephael ^a   Lev Ran, Oren ^a   Paz, Yosef ^a   Kramer, Amir ^a   Frolkis, Inna ^a   Shapira, Itzhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Composite graft; Internal thoracic artery; Revascularization; Skeletonized

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037879094     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.123.5.1348     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Lytle BW, Blackstone EH, Loop FD, et al. Two internal thoracic artery grafts are better than one. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999; 117:855-872
2. Pick AW, Orszulak TA, Anderson BJ, et al. Single vs bilateral internal mammary artery grafts: 10-year outcome analysis. Ann Thorac Surg 1997; 64:599-605
3. Buxton BF, Komeda M, Fuller JA, et al. Bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting may improve outcome of coronary artery surgery: risk-adjusted survival. Circulation 1998; 98:II1-II6
4. Loop FD. Coronary artery surgery: the end of the beginning. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998; 14:554-571
5. Schmidt SE, Jones JW, Thornby JI, et al. Improved survival with multiple left-sided bilateral internal thoracic artery grafts. Ann Thorac Surg 1997; 64:9-14
6. Borger M, Rao V, Weisel R, et al. Deep sternal wound infection: risk factors and outcomes. Ann Thorac Surg 1998; 65:1050-1056
7. Fiore A, Naunheim K, McBride L, et al. Fifteen-year follow-up for double internal thoracic artery grafts. Eur J Cardiothoracic Surg 1991; 5:248-252
8. Tatoulis J, Buxton B, Fuller J. Results of 1,454 free right internal thoracic artery-to-coronary artery grafts. Ann Thorac Surg 1997; 64:1263-1268
9. Sauvage LR. Extensive myocardial revascularization using only internal thoracic arteries for grafting the anterior descending circumflex and right systems. In: Cardiac surgery: state of the art reviews (vol 6). Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus, 1999; 397
10. Cunningham JM, Gharavi MA, Fardin R, et al. Considerations in the skeletonization technique of internal mammary artery dissection. Ann Thorac Surg 1992; 54:947-950
11. Choi JB, Lee SY. Skeletonized and pedicled internal thoracic artery grafts: effects of free flow during bypass. Ann Thorac Surg 1996; 61:909-913
12. Parish MA, Asai T, Grossi EA, et al. The effects of different techniques of internal mammary artery harvesting on sternal blood flow. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1992; 104:1301-1307
13. Carrier M, Gregoire J, Tronc F, et al. Effect of internal mammary artery dissection on sternal vascularization. Ann Thorac Surg 1992; 53:115-119
14. Sofer D, Gurevitch J, Shapira I, et al. Sternal wound infection in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting using bilateral skeletonized internal mammary arteries. Ann Surg 1999; 229:585-590
15. Dion R, Etienne PY, Verhelst GK, et al. Bilateral mammary grafting. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1993; 7:287-294
16. Tector AJ, Amundsen S, Schmal TM, et al. Total revascularization with T-grafts. Ann Thorac Surg 1994; 57:33-39
17. Grondin CM, Limer R. Sequential anastomoses in coronary artery grafting: technical aspects and early and late angiographic results. Ann Thorac Surg 1976; 23:1-8
18. Barner H, Barnett M. Fifteen to 21-year angiographic assessment of internal thoracic artery as a bypass conduit. Ann Thorac Surg 1994; 57:1526-1528
19. Loop FD, Lytle BW, Cosgrove DM, et al. Influence of the internal mammary artery graft on 10-year survival and other cardiac events. N Engl J Med 1986; 314:1-6
20. Calafiore A, Di Giammarco G, Luciani N, et al. Composite arterial conduits for a wider arterial myocardial revascularization. Ann Thorac Surg 1994; 58:185-190
21. Mills NL. Physiologic and technical aspects of internal mammary artery coronary artery bypass grafts. In: Cohn LH, ed. Modern techniques in surgery. Mount Kisco, NY: Futura, 1982; 1-19
22. Sauvage MR, Wu H-D, Kowalsky PE, et al. Healing basis and surgical techniques for complete revascularization of the left ventricle using only the internal mammary arteries. Ann Thorac Surg 1986; 42:448-465
23. Wendler O, Hennen B, Markwirth T, et al. T grafts with the right internal thoracic artery to left internal thoracic artery vs the left internal thoracic artery and radial artery: flow dynamics in the internal thoracic artery main stem. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999; 118:841-848
24. Royse AG, Royse CF, Gorves KL, et al. Blood flow in composite arterial grafts and effect of native coronary flow. Ann Thorac Surg 1999; 68:1619-1622
25. Tatoulis J, Boyse AG, Buxton BF, et al. The radial artery in coronary surgery: a 5-year experience; clinical and angiographic results. Ann Thorac Surg 2002; 73:143-147
26. Lytle BW, Cosgrove DM, Loop FD, et al. Perioperative risk of bilateral internal mammary grafting: analysis of 500 cases from 1971 to 1984. Circulation 1986; 74(suppl):11137-11141