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  • Title: The treatment of multiple coronary occlusions by internal mammary artery implantation and omental graft: report on two human cases.
    Author: VINEBERG A, PIFARRE B, KATO Y.
    Journal: Can Med Assoc J; 1963 Mar 09; 88(10):499-504. PubMed ID: 13997362.
    Abstract:
    The importance of triple coronary artery disease was evident in 125 patients undergoing internal mammary artery implantation, when some patients died from right coronary artery occlusion. This occurred even when the internal mammary artery was patent and revascularizing the left ventricle.In 1961 the free omental graft operation was developed to revascularize both right and left ventricles. In animals this operation has proved most effective in preventing death after application of Ameroid constrictors to all three coronary arteries. Arteriolar or larger-sized vessels rapidly formed between the aorta and omentum and the pericardium and omentum and the heart and omentum.Two patients with triple coronary artery disease underwent internal mammary artery implantation and free omental graft early in December 1962. Postoperative convalescence was uneventful. They have returned home and appear to be improved. Wrapping the entire heart with the free omental graft has produced little reaction, suggesting that, as in the animal, the grafts are surviving.
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