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SUBMITTER: Waduud MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6247140 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Waduud M A MA Giannoudi M M Drozd M M Malkin C J CJ Patel J V JV Scott D J A DJA
Oxford medical case reports 20181121 12
Subclavian artery stenosis (SAS) resulting in coronary subclavian steal syndrome (CSSS) is a common but under recognized pathology following coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Patients with SAS may be asymptomatic due to the sub-clinical diversion of blood flow from the myocardium and retrograde blood flow during catheter angiography in the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) may be the first suggestion of CSSS. The management of SAS, causing CSSS, may rarely require acute assessment and int ...[more]