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Ischemic Heart Disease

Steal syndrome may be an adverse event in patients with a specific bypass graft

Published in Cardiovascular Week, November 15th, 2004

Researchers have investigated subclavian stenosis/occlusion in patients with subclavian steal and previous bypass of internal mammary interventricular anterior artery.

Scientists in Italy report, "There are only a few published studies on the association between subclavian steal syndrome and ischemic heart disease. The objective of this report is to evaluate the efficacy of subclavian stenoocclusion treatment in patients with subclavian steal syndrome (SSS) and previous coronary bypass."

F. Ferrara and colleagues of GESI in Rome explained, "Over the last 8 years we observed 207 patients who underwent left internal mammary artery-intraventricular...

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