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A new strategy of total arterial revascularization
A A Pitsis1, H C Cullen, F Musumeci
1University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 13, 1999
Abstract:
We report a new strategy of total arterial revascularization based on bilateral internal thoracic arteries (ITAs) and a radial artery (RA). The technique employs a graft extension of the proximal third of the right internal thoracic artery (RITA) with the RA, in combination with the T-graft technique, by which the lower two-thirds of the free RITA is anastomosed to the side of the left internal thoracic artery (LITA).