A team of McMaster researchers has discovered that fat tissue surrounding thoracic arteries may be beneficial in patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery. A study led by Yu-Jing Gao, of the ...

September 8, 2011 (Paris, France) — The right internal thoracic artery (RITA) is a better vessel to use than the radial artery (RA) for multiple arterial revascularizations during coronary artery ...

Patient survival after CABG with bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafting is partially dependent on the proportion of myocardial mass supplied by the selected target vessels, according to a ...