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ReviewAnnals of thoracic medicine2014

Save or sacrifice the internal mammary pedicle during anterior mediastinotomy?

Efstratios Apostolakis, Nikolaos A Papakonstantinou, Serafeim Chlapoutakis, Christos Prokakis

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Review in Annals of thoracic medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Efstratios ApostolakisDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Nikolaos A PapakonstantinouDepartment of General Surgery, General Oncology Hospital of Kifissia "Agioi Anargyroi", 41 Kaliftaki Street, P.C. 14564, Kifissia, Athens, Greece.
Serafeim ChlapoutakisDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Christos ProkakisDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.

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Abstract

Ligation and dissection of internal mammary vessels is the most under-estimated complication of anterior mediastinotomy. However, patients requiring anterior mediastinotomy may experience long survival that makes the development of ischemic heart disease throughout their life possible. Therefore, the un-judicial sacrifice of the internal mammary pedicle may deprive them from the benefit to have their internal mammary artery used as a graft in order to successfully bypass severe left anterior descending artery stenoses. We recommend the preservation of the internal mammary pedicle during anterior mediastinotomy, which should be a common message among our colleagues from the beginning of their training.

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Anterior mediastinotomycoronary artery diseaseinternal mammary artery graftlung cancermediastinal tumors

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PMID24987471
PMCPMC4073569

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