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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 53, 266-268, Copyright © 1992 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Availability of the in situ right gastroepiploic artery for coronary artery bypass

T Saito, H Suma, Y Terada, Y Wanibuchi, S Fukuda and S Furuta
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

The right gastroepiploic artery (GEA) has been successfully used as a coronary bypass graft recently. We examined the in situ GEA graft length required from the pyloric portion to the site of coronary anastomosis at the time of operation. Measured GEA length was 17.0 +/- 1.7 cm for the posterior descending artery anastomosis in 17 patients, 17.8 +/- 1.7 cm for the main right coronary artery anastomosis in 13 patients, 22.0 +/- 2.3 cm for the posterolateral branch anastomosis in 7 patients, and 21.0 cm for the left anterior descending artery anastomosis in 1 patient. We examined 228 randomly selected abdominal angiograms and measured the internal diameter of the right GEA at every 2-cm interval from its origin. Probability of availability of the in situ GEA graft for each site of anastomosis was 97% to the right coronary artery and 88% to the anterior descending or the circumflex artery when the internal diameter of GEA was 1.5 mm or greater. From an anatomical standpoint, we concluded that the GEA can be assumed available without preoperative angiography.

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