title: [Experience of coronary artery bypass grafting with internal thoracic artery].
abstract: Between March 1990 and May 1991, twenty-nine patients underwent coronary artery bypass grafting. The mean number of grafts was 2.7 +/- 0.9 grafts per patient. 28 patients (96.6% of all cases) underwent CABG with the internal thoracic arteries. The perioperative mortality was 3.4% (1/29 cases). The postoperative coronary angiography at one month revealed that the early patency of total grafts, of internal thoracic artery grafts and of saphenous vein grafts were 96.7% (58/60 grafts), 100% (29/29 grafts), 93.5% (29/31 grafts) respectively. The early patency of internal thoracic artery graft was better than of saphenous vein graft.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Takeda General Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soneda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oda
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013895:Thoracic Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*; D014654:Vascular Patency