Nobunari Tomura, Yu Kataoka, Kensuke Morris, Eri Kiyoshige, Kunihiro Nishimura, Nobuhito Yagi, Kota Murai, Takamasa Iwai, Kenichiro Sawada, Hideo Matama, Satoshi Honda, Masashi Fujino, Kensuke Takagi, Shuichi Yoneda, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Yoshio Tahara, Yasuhide Asaumi, Tetsu Satow, Hiroharu Kataoka, Satsuki Fukushima, Tomoyuki Fujita, Teruo Noguchi
BACKGROUND: While internal mammary artery (IMA) has become a major conduit of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, subclavian artery stenosis (SAS) could cause subsequent coronary events due to ischemia of myocardial territory supplied by IMA. Clinical characteristics and cardiovascular outcomes of SAS-related IMA failure (SAS-IMAF) remain to be fully determined yet. Therefore, the current study was designed to characterize SAS-IMAF in patients receiving CABG with IMA. METHODS: This is a retrospective observational study which analyzed 380 patients who presented acute coronary syndrome/stable ischemic heart disease (ACS/SIHD) after CABG using IMA (2005...
December 15, 2023: Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy