Table 1.
Anatomical and Physiological Comparison of Autologous Vessel Tissue Used in Coronary Artery Bypass
| Vessel | Physiology |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inner diameter (mm) | Wall thickness (μm) | Length (cm)40 | Muscular or elastic | Tendency to spasm | Nitric oxide production | |
| Coronary artery | 2 ± 0.4540 | 258 ± 4140 | 7.54 ± 1.84 | Muscular40 | — | — |
| Internal mammary arteries | 1.6 ± 0.341 | 200 ± 6742 | 19.48 ± 3.57 | Elastic43 | Low14 | High14 |
| Radial artery | 2.4 ± 0.344 | 290 ± 6344 | 22.28 ± 3.31 | Muscular43 | Highest45 | |
| Gastroepiploic artery | 2.7 ± 0.346 | 197 ± 7740 | 19.32 ± 4.18 | Muscular43 | High47 | |
| Saphenous vein | 3.9 ± 0.4548 | 200 ± 340 | 72.42 ± 6.6 | — | — | Low |