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Volume 31 Issue 2 (2005)
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	Case Study: Late Revascularization of the Anterior Descending Coronary Artery in a Young Patient with Previous Myocardial Infarction Caused by Blunt Chest Trauma. An Option for the Left Internal Thoracic Artery? (Page 168)
	Paulo Roberto Barbosa Evora, Maurício Shigueo Oshiro, Daniel Gonçalves de Souza, Antonio Carlos Menardi
	Abstract:
	A myocardial infarction secondary to a left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) injury in a 29-year-old male, following a motorcycle accident, is reported. The option for late myocardial revascularization with in situ LAD/left internal thoracic artery (LITA) anastomosis is emphasized as the particularity of this case report.