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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 92, 88-91, Copyright © 1986 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Human internal mammary artery produces more prostacyclin than saphenous vein

A Chaikhouni, FA Crawford, PJ Kochel, LS Olanoff and PV Halushka

The patency rate of internal mammary artery grafts is reported to be better than that of saphenous vein grafts in myocardial revascularization operations. To identify a possible biochemical explanation for this phenomenon, we studied the production of prostacyclin by the internal mammary artery and saphenous vein in 11 patients. Segments of internal mammary artery and saphenous vein from each patient were incubated in Krebs-Henseleit buffer at 37 degrees C. After 15 minutes, the basal production of 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha (prostacyclin metabolite) by the internal mammary artery was 152 +/- 39 pg/mg wet weight (mean +/- standard error of the mean), whereas the saphenous vein produced only 68 +/- 17 pg/mg (p less than 0.001). After 30 minutes, the internal mammary artery produced 179 +/- 42 pg/mg, whereas the saphenous vein produced 75 +/- 18 pg/mg (p less than 0.001). After the basal incubation period, the vessels were incubated with arachidonic acid (prostaglandin substrate) for 15 minutes. The internal mammary artery produced 49.4 +/- 9.9 pg/mg, whereas the saphenous vein produced only 22.6 +/- 9.8 pg/mg (p less than 0.01). These observations suggest that the capacity of the internal mammary artery to produce prostacyclin in both a basal and a stimulated state is greater than that of the saphenous vein. Since prostacyclin is a potent vasodilator and inhibitor of platelet function, these results provide a possible biochemical explanation for the clinically observed better patency rate of internal mammary artery grafts.

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