Smith said the surgical team had taken blood vessels from beneath the left and right side of Clinton's sternum, or breast bone, known as internal mammary arteries, and another from the left leg, to create the detours around the clogged arteries.
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For the third bypass, he severs one end of the nearby internal mammary artery and connects it to the heart . 6 : 40 pm Kolat is off the heart-lung machine, her own heart back at work . 7 : 40 pm It's over.
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Near the sternum, they cross in front of the internal mammary artery and Transversus thoracis muscle, pierce the Intercostales interni, the anterior intercostal membranes, and Pectoralis major, and supply the integument of the front of the thorax and over the mamma, forming the anterior cutaneous branches of the thorax; the branch from the second nerve unites with the anterior supraclavicular nerves of the cervical plexus.
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MICS CABG allows utilization of the left internal mammary artery ( IMA; aka Left internal thoracic artery, Left ITA ) to bypass the left anterior descending artery ( LAD ), which is termed as Left IMA-LAD, as a preferable anastamosis whenever indicated and technically feasible ( Loop et al . ) and has been proven to benefit in event free survival ( Acinapura et al . ).
