Iliopoulos Jim, Manganas Con, Jepson Nigel, Newman David C
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2002 Feb;73(2):652-3. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(01)03011-9.
Coronary artery revascularization remains a feasible and beneficial treatment for coronary artery disease in patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Careful angiographic evaluation of the left internal mammary artery and coronary arteries is required in patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum with suspected coronary artery disease. A nonstenosed left internal mammary artery at angiography may be used as a conduit for coronary artery revascularization; however, both the effect of harvest and anastomosis on the disease process in the left internal mammary artery and the long-term patency of left internal mammary artery grafts remain unknown.
