Surgical Outcomes of in situ Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting in Patients with Ipsilateral Upper-Extremity Arteriovenous Fistulas

Chijioke Chukwudi, Ruby Singh, Arian Mansur, Benjamin Grobman, Patrick Udeh, Jordan Bloom, George Tolis, David A D’Alessandro, Thoralf M Sundt, Asishana A Osho · 2026

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Chijioke Chukwudi and a team including Asishana Osho review heart bypass outcomes in dialysis patients who also have an arm fistula for dialysis access. Their study was published in twenty twenty-six. Surgeons worry that using the chest artery on the same side as the fistula could let blood steal away from the heart graft.

The team reviewed one hundred and twenty-two dialysis patients who had bypass surgery at two centers between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty-three. Sixty-six had the chest artery graft on the fistula side; fifty-six had it on the other side or as a free graft. The main measure joined death, heart attack, and stroke. Side measures covered problems around surgery, ischemia during dialysis, and three-year survival. The study tests whether the same-side worry is borne out in real outcomes.

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CREATORChijioke Chukwudi, Ruby Singh, Arian Mansur, Benjamin Grobman, Patrick Udeh, Jordan Bloom, George Tolis, David A D’Alessandro, Thoralf M Sundt, Asishana A Osho
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE28 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13541775

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