European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 4, 107-108, Copyright © 1990 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Coronary artery bypass with inverted internal mammary artery: angiographic evidence of late graft patency
U Livi, U Bortolotti, A Mazzucco, D Miotto and V Gallucci
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Padova Medical School, Italy.
The internal mammary artery (IMA) is currently considered as the graft of
choice for myocardial revascularization procedures. We report on two
patients who underwent successful coronary artery bypass surgery using
retrograde IMA flow. We provide, for the first time, angiographic evidence
of late patency of an inverted IMA graft.