welcomes you to the new, improved website!The authors of this paper aimed to study the frequency and predictors of internal mammary artery (IMA) failure in 1539 patients who underwent IMA revascularization of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery. IMA failure was defined as >75% stenosis at a follow-up of 12-18 months. They found that IMA failure occured in 8.6%. IMA failure was associated with LAD stenosis
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Frequency and Predictors of Internal Mammary Artery Graft Failure and Subsequent Clinical Outcomes
Source: Circulation
Source URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26647082
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Author(s): Harskamp RE, Alexander JH, Ferguson TB Jr, Hager R, Mack MJ, Englum B, Wojdyla D, Schulte PJ, Kouchoukos NT, de Winter RJ, Gibson CM, Peterson ED, Harrington RA, Smith PK, Lopes RD.
