Does skeletonization compromise the integrity of internal thoracic artery grafts?
The functional integrity of skeletonized ITA was similar to that of pedicled ITA in both acute and chronic phases. Although skeletonization induced neovascularization in the adventitia it did not induce proliferation of smooth muscle cells in the media, which is supposed to be a feature of vascular remodeling.
It is suggested that an insulin-deficient diabetes, not quantitatively but qualitatively, impaires the PTH secretion.