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Introduction: The use of two arterial conduits for CABG is rapidly increasing. The second arterial conduit to LITA is usually RITA or radial artery. We sought to compare outcomes when either RITA or radial artery is exclusively used as a Y composite graft to LITA for total arterial revascularization. Material and methods:  We retrospectively analyzed 231 ...

background: a good animal model for coronary surgery experiments has been difficult to establish. an ideal model should have the closest morphological resemblance to human beings. the objective of this study is to establish sheep as a model for these experiments. methods: the anatomical aspects of left anterior descending coronary artery (lad) and right internal thoracic artery (rita) in the sh...

5 6 Running Title: C. trachomatis Incs and invasiveness of LGV strains 7 8 Filipe Almeida, Vítor Borges, Rita Ferreira, Maria José Borrego, João Paulo Gomes, 9 and Luís Jaime Mota 10 11 12 Infection Biology Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova 13 de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal. 14 Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Lisbon, Portuga...

Sensory substitution has advanced remarkably over the past 35 years since first introduced to the scientific literature by Paul Bach-y-Rita. In this issue dedicated to his memory, we describe a collection of reviews that assess the current state of neuroscience research on sensory substitution, visual rehabilitation, and multisensory processes.

BACKGROUND In situ bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA), with ante-aortic crossover right ITA (RITA) is gaining popularity. However, the retrosternal position of the crossover RITA has raised concerns with regard to its compromise during subsequent resternotomy. METHODS Ten patients underwent repeat median sternotomy after prior ante-aortic crossover RITA grafting. Specific RITA routing a...

Giuseppe Moruzzi was born one century ago; he was an outstanding Italian neurophysiologist, who was particularly famous for his contributions to the study of the mechanisms underlying the control of the sleep-waking cycle in mammals. In 1990, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Moruzzi's great friend and admirer, used the occasion of an invitation by the University of Parma, where Moruzzi graduated in medici...

OBJECTIVES Composite grafting using the right internal thoracic artery (RITA) is occasionally performed when the in situ RITA does not have sufficient length to reach the target vessel. In this study, we assessed the clinical and angiographic outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with V-composite grafting (defined as a distance between the proximal anastomosis of the RITA and the a...