The use of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to graft a borderline lesion in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) has been associated with distal narrowing and occlusion of the LIMA. We present a patient in whom the LIMA occluded 1 year after coronary artery bypass, but was found
Recruitable patency of the internal mammary artery graft
β Scribed by Rollo P. Villareal; Virendra S. Mathur
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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