Long-term benefits of internal thoracic artery-coronary artery bypass in Japanese patients
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Vol. 46 (1) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03217715
Abstract
This study sought to determine the effects of grafting the internal thoracic artery (ITA) to the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) on long-term (10-year) survival, the cardiac death-free rate, and on the cardiac event-free rate in Japanese patients.Keywords
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