After 50 years, a personal reflection on the development of internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafting

It has been 50 years since the first publications of evidence that internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafts successfully bypassed obstructions of coronary arteries in dogs and in humans. The evidence consisted of measurements of blood flow through the grafts and selective angiograms of the grafts month...

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Published inAnnals of cardiothoracic surgery Vol. 7; no. 5; pp. 644 - 651
Main Authors Green, George E, Puskas, John D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published China AME Publishing Company 01.09.2018
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Multiple internal thoracic artery grafting (multiple ITA grafting)
surgical microscope
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Summary:It has been 50 years since the first publications of evidence that internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafts successfully bypassed obstructions of coronary arteries in dogs and in humans. The evidence consisted of measurements of blood flow through the grafts and selective angiograms of the grafts months following operation. It may be of interest to recount how that success came about.
ISSN:2225-319X
2304-1021
DOI:10.21037/acs.2018.05.14