ATS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Author home page(s):
Tadashi Tashiro
Michio Kimura
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Tashiro, T.
Right arrow Articles by Kimura, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Tashiro, T.
Right arrow Articles by Kimura, M.

Ann Thorac Surg 1998;65:951-954
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Midterm Results of Free Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting for Myocardial Revascularization

Tadashi Tashiro, MDaa, Katsuhiko Nakamura, MDaa, Shungo Sukehiro, MDaa, Masanao Nakamura, MDaa, Ryuichi Shibano, MDaa, Tadashi Motomura, MDaa, Michio Kimura, MDaa

a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Fukuoka School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

Accepted for publication September 4, 1997.

Address reprint requests to Dr Tashiro, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Fukuoka School of Medicine, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonanku, Fukuoka 814-80, Japan

Background. This study investigated the midterm results after free internal thoracic artery (FITA) grafting for coronary artery bypass grafting.

Methods. Between 1988 and 1995, coronary artery bypass grafting and postoperative graft angiography were performed in 337 patients, of whom 56 patients were treated with 57 FITA grafts. We examined the postoperative graft patency of FITA grafts compared with in situ internal thoracic artery (IITA) grafts, and the late results in the patients receiving at least one FITA graft (FITA group) were compared with those in the patients receiving only IITA graft (IITA group).

Results. The early postoperative graft patency rate was 93.2% for the FITA grafts and 96.0% for the IITA grafts (not significant [NS]). Patients underwent sequential graft angiography at 29.5 months postoperatively (25 FITA and 89 IITA). The late graft patency rate was 100% and 92.1%, respectively (not significant). The cardiac death-free survival rate at 5 years was 93.5% in the FITA group and 96.6% in the IITA group (not significant), and the angina-free survival rate at 5 years was 80.6% and 83.2%, respectively (not significant).

Conclusions. The FITA provides late results comparable with those attained with IITA.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 1998 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.