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Newer Arterial Coronary Bypass Conduits: Right Gastroepiploic and Epigastric Artery

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Coronary Artery Graft Disease

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Following general recognition of the superiority of the internal thoracic artery graft on long-term patient outcome [1], an aggressive investigation was undertaken to find a new arterial conduit which is equally reliable to the internal thoracic artery. In the past 5 years the right gastroepiploic artery (GEA) and the inferior epigastric artery (IEA) have emerged as suitable arterial conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and their clinical application is expanding.

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  1. Abteilung Kardiologie, Inselspital, 3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Thomas F. Lüscher

  2. Herz-Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsspital, 8091, Zürich, Switzerland

    Marko Turina

  3. Department of Medicine, Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115-6195, USA

    Eugene Braunwald

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Suma, H. (1994). Newer Arterial Coronary Bypass Conduits: Right Gastroepiploic and Epigastric Artery. In: Lüscher, T.F., Turina, M., Braunwald, E. (eds) Coronary Artery Graft Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78637-2_5

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