Influence of the Internal-Mammary-Artery Graft on 10-Year Survival and Other Cardiac Events

D. Loop, Floyd; W. Lytle, Bruce; M. Cosgrove, Delos; W. Stewart, Robert; Goormastic, Marlene; W. Williams, George; A.R. Golding, Leonard; C. Gill, Carl; C. Taylor, Paul; C. Sheldon, William; L. Proudfit, William

doi:10.1056/nejm198601023140101

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Influence of the Internal-Mammary-Artery Graft on 10-Year Survival and Other Cardiac Events

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Jan 2, 1986

Authors:

Floyd D. Loop

Bruce W. Lytle

Delos M. Cosgrove

Abstract

We compared patients who received an internal-mammary-artery graft to the anterior descending coronary artery alone or combined with one or more saphenous-vein grafts (n = 2306) with patients who had only saphenous-vein bypass grafts (n = 3625). The 10-year actuarial survival rate among the group re...

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Medicine

Mammary artery

Artery

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