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Intraoperative Duplex Study of Internal Thoracic Artery Spasm During Coronary Bypass
Author(s) -
Palerme LouisPhilippe,
Varennes Benoit,
Steinmetz Oren K.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1997.tb00159.x
Subject(s) - medicine , internal thoracic artery , duplex scanning , bypass grafting , artery , duplex (building) , vasodilation , cardiology , blood flow , radiology , surgery , stenosis , dna , biology , genetics
A bstract In this article, we document flow disturbance due to internal thoracic artery spasm (ITA) in a patient undergoing minimally invasive coronary artery grafting. We used intraoperative duplex scanning. Application of systemic vasodilators resulted in rapid improvement of ITA flow, as demonstrated by serial duplex examinations.