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[Composite arterial conduits with internal thoracic artery and radial artery for a myocardial revascularization].
Go Watanabe, K Ueyama, Takuro Misaki, Keijyu Kotoh, Tetsuyuki Ueda, Akio Yamashita, Yasuhiro Abe
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Abstract
From April 1996 to December 1996, 15 patients were submitted to myocardial revascularization using composite arterial conduit with internal thoracic artery (ITA) and radial artery (RA). The age ranged from 51 to 76 years (mean age, 65.7 years); Forty patients were male. All patients had double or triple vessel disease or LMT disease. We used 28 arterial conduits including 15 left ITAs, 15 RA, 9 right gastroepiploic artery and one inferior epigastric artery. 15 RAs were anastomosed to LITAs and 15 composite arterial conduits were constructed (branched in 15). There was no operative deaths. Early postoperative angiographic controls demonstrated 93.3% (14/15) patency of composite grafts in 14 of 15 patients. The composite arterial graft using ITA and RA is feasible and the anastomoses so performed are completely safe.