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Human Internal Mammary Artery (IMA) Transplantation and Stenting: A Human Model to Study the Development of In-Stent Restenosis
Published on: May 9, 2012
Patency of internal mammary artery grafts in no-flow situations
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
We report two cases in which an internal mammary artery graft was found to be nonfunctional in the early postoperative period, but repeat catheterization at 6 months revealed the graft to be patent. These two cases substantiate that closure of an internal mammary artery graft may be reversible.
