Thoracotomy for correction of a kinked right internal mammary artery graft

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1655-

  Cetindag, Ibrahim B ^a   Quin, Jacquelyn A ^a   Grasch, Anthony L ^a   Hazelrigg, Stephen R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STERNOTOMY; SYMPTOM; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION; MAMMARY ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; RESTENOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0347568516     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04175-9     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Rerkpattanapipat R, Ghassemi R, Ledley G, et al. Use of stents to treat kinks causing obstruction in a left internal mammary artery graft. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 1999;46:223-6.
2. Brenot P, Mousseaux E, Relland J, Gaux JC. Kinking of internal mammary grafts: report of two cases and surgical correction. Catheter Cardiovasc Diagn 1988;14:172-4.