From July 1997 to April 2017, 286 cases of internal mammary artery (IMA) damage were recorded out of the 10,360 coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operations with IMA harvest, with an incidence up to 2.7%, which is r...From July 1997 to April 2017, 286 cases of internal mammary artery (IMA) damage were recorded out of the 10,360 coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operations with IMA harvest, with an incidence up to 2.7%, which is relatively high. The main reason for such high incidence might be the surgeons’ experience and the learning curve. Although one surgeon (Huang FJ) performed all these operations, the cases were operated in many different hospitals, and more than 200 surgical assistants who were young and inexperienced harvested the IMA.展开更多
文摘From July 1997 to April 2017, 286 cases of internal mammary artery (IMA) damage were recorded out of the 10,360 coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operations with IMA harvest, with an incidence up to 2.7%, which is relatively high. The main reason for such high incidence might be the surgeons’ experience and the learning curve. Although one surgeon (Huang FJ) performed all these operations, the cases were operated in many different hospitals, and more than 200 surgical assistants who were young and inexperienced harvested the IMA.
