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Management of a Left Internal Thoracic Artery Graft Injury during Left Thoracotomy for Thoracic Surgery
Matthew Oates1, Sumit Yadav1, Pankaj Saxena1
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Townsville Hospital, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Abstract:
There have been some recent reports on the surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients following previous coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Use of internal thoracic artery graft is a gold standard in cardiac surgery with superior long-term patency. Left internal thoracic artery graft is usually patent during left lung resection in patients who present to the surgeon with an operable lung cancer. We have presented our institutional experience with left-sided thoracic surgery in patients who have had previous coronary artery surgery with a patent internal thoracic artery graft.
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