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ReviewBiomedicines2022

Doppler Ultrasound Selection and Follow-Up of the Internal Mammary Artery as Coronary Graft.

Pietro Scicchitano, Micaela De Palo, Giuseppe Parisi, Margherita Ilaria Gioia, Marco Matteo Ciccone

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Review in Biomedicines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Pietro ScicchitanoDepartment of Cardiology, Hospital 'F. Perinei' Altamura, 70022 Altamura, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0471-0053
Micaela De PaloDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, University 'A. Moro' Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Giuseppe ParisiDepartment of Cardiology, Hospital 'S. Paolo' Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7149-7454
Margherita Ilaria GioiaDepartment of Cardiology, Hospital 'Perrino' Brindisi, 72100 Brindisi, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4405-9958
Marco Matteo CicconeDepartment of Cardiology, University 'A. Moro' Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy.
University of Bari Aldo Moro · ITOspedale A. Perrino · ITOspedale San Paolo · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The impact of coronary artery disease (CAD) on all-cause mortality and overall disabilities is well-established. Percutaneous and/or surgical coronary revascularization procedures dramatically reduced the occurrence of adverse cardiovascular events in patients suffering from atherosclerosis. Specifically, guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology on the management of myocardial revascularization promoted coronary artery by-pass graft (CABG) intervention in patients with specific alterations in the coronary tree due to the higher beneficial effects of this procedure as compared to the percutaneous one. The left internal mammary artery (LIMA) is one of the best-performing vessels in CABG procedures due to its location and its own structural characteristics. Nevertheless, the non-invasive assessment of its patency is challenging. Doppler ultrasonography (DU) might perform as a reliable technique for the non-invasive evaluation of the patency of LIMA. Data from the literature revealed that DU may detect severe (>70%) stenosis of the LIMA graft. In this case, pulsed-wave Doppler might show peak diastolic velocity/peak systolic velocity < 0.5 and diastolic fraction < 50%. A stress test might also be adopted for the evaluation of patency of LIMA through DU. The aim of this narrative review is to evaluate the impact of DU on the evaluation of the patency of LIMA graft in patients who undergo follow-up after CABG intervention.

Indexed as

continuous wave dopplercoronary artery by-pass graftDoppler ultrasound evaluationpulsed wave dopplerstenosis

Identifiers

PMID36672574
PMCPMC9856174
OpenAlexW4312225807

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