The left and right internal thoracic artery (LITA and RITA, respectively), a branch of the subclavian artery, is often used for reconstruction of coronary arteries. Long-term results of this treatment ...

CSBG: Carotid subclavian bypass graft; PTA: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. The treatment of subclavian artery occlusive disease has evolved from surgery to percutaneous-based treatment ...

CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...

ARTERIAL reconstruction by thrombendarterectomy or grafting has been widely and successfully used for obliterative arteriosclerosis of the abdominal aorta and its branches. This has naturally ...