Long-term benefits of internal thoracic artery-coronary artery bypass in Japanese patients
...Published in The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
ObjectivesThis study sought to determine the effects of grafting the internal thoracic artery (ITA) to the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) on long-term (10-year) survival, the cardiac death-free rate, and on the cardiac event-free rate in Japanese patients.BackgroundThe use of ITA grafts has been reported to enhance postoperative sur...
