Then they used a metal retractor to lift the rib cage while Akchurin removed an internal mammary artery from Yeltsin's chest.
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As he harvested the left mammary artery, Otero sat at the video console and maneuvered handgrips that precisely guided tiny instruments inside the patient.
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In one, the left internal thoracic artery ( internal mammary artery ) is diverted to the left anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery.
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To obtain veins for the grafts, surgeons usually detach and remove a length of the internal mammary artery that runs down the chest inside the ribs.
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In the case of Reardon's recent patient, only one bypass was needed _ involving the mammary artery, which provides blood into the heart.
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Then, while stitching the grafts made from the mammary artery and veins taken from the leg, Akchurin turns to the higher magnification afforded by operating microscopes.
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Dr . Benjamin L . Aaron, Cheney's heart surgeon, said that he used internal mammary arteries for two of Cheney's four grafts.
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He was also one of the first to perform a surgical procedure to replace a damaged esophagus by connecting the mammary artery and vein to the small intestine.
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They take the mammary artery that has been set aside and begin sewing it to the coronary artery with the same fine sutures that are used in standard bypass operations.
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It took longer than he expected to remove some of the material and prepare the blood vessel so that the mammary artery could be used to bypass the clogged portion.
