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Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2004;12:130-132
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ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

Echocardiographic Evaluation of Internal Mammary Artery Graft Patency

Min-Ho Song, MD, Mamoru Ito, MS1, Sachie Toki, MD, Keisuke Tanaka, MD, Wataru Kato, MD, Jinichi Iwase, MD, Kazuyoshi Tajima, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
1 Department of Sonographic Examination, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

For reprint information contact: Min-Ho Song, MD Tel: 81 52 481 5111 Fax: 81 52 482 7733 Email: songmhmd{at}yahoo.co.jp Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, 3-35 Michisita-cho, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 453-8511, Japan.

The feasibility of using transthoracic echocardiography to assess internal mammary artery graft patency and function was examined. Coronary angiography and transthoracic echocardiography was performed in 60 consecutive patients undergoing coronary artery bypass from April 2000 to March 2002. Flow velocity, velocity-time integral, and the ratio of the diastolic fraction of the velocity-time integral to total velocity-time integral were measured by doppler transthoracic echocardiography. A stress test was carried out to detect coronary flow changes by echocardiography. The relationship between the coronary angiogram and the echocardiogram was analyzed. The overall graft patency rate was 98%. The mean diastolic velocity-time integral in patients with patent grafts was 0.64, and it increased up to 0.72 in response to physical stress. The occluded grafts showed diastolic velocity-time integral fractions of less than 0.60 in all grafts. There was a statistical correlation between patency ≥ FitzGibbon grade B and diastolic velocity-time integral > 0.60. The diastolic velocity-time integral recorded by transthoracic echocardiography predicted the patency of internal mammary artery grafts. As echocardiography is noninvasive and accurate, it might be a useful method of verifying arterial graft patency.




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