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AMI-s su IVA

English translation: LITA to LAD

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Italian term or phrase:AMI-s su IVA
English translation:LITA to LAD
Entered by: Rachael Alexander

11:59 Sep 1, 2011
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Cardiology
Italian term or phrase: AMI-s su IVA
Part of the following sentence describing the operation(s) a patient had to have after suffering from heart problems.

" [...] era stato sottoposto ad intervento chirurgico con l’impianto di 3 by-pass aorto-coronarici + AMI-s su IVA e patch di vena safena sopra le due stenosi."

I don't have anything else in terms of context because there is just this one sentence in what is otherwise a law related document.
Thanks for any help.
Rachael Alexander
Italy
Local time: 02:44
LITA to LAD
Explanation:
AMI-s is arteria mammaria interna - sinistra which is the left internal thoracic artery or LITA.

This artery is grafted onto the left anterior descending artery.

IVA = arteria interventricolare anteriore

questions asked zillions of times - must be in the glossary

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Note added at 21 minutes (2011-09-01 12:20:58 GMT)
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http://www.google.fr/search?q=LITA to LAD&rls=com.microsoft:...

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Note added at 9 hrs (2011-09-01 21:10:49 GMT)
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OK no worries - having a bad hair day ;-) (fed up with translators accepting jobs they can't do - not you in this case - I've also had legal/admin stuff in medical translations I've had to ask help for :-) )
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SJLD
Local time: 02:44
Grading comment
Thanks again. Really helpful - it meant I understood exactly what this person had to have done. Thanks again.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3LITA to LAD
SJLD
Summary of reference entries provided
Coronary arteries in Italian
Joseph Tein

  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
LITA to LAD


Explanation:
AMI-s is arteria mammaria interna - sinistra which is the left internal thoracic artery or LITA.

This artery is grafted onto the left anterior descending artery.

IVA = arteria interventricolare anteriore

questions asked zillions of times - must be in the glossary

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Note added at 21 minutes (2011-09-01 12:20:58 GMT)
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http://www.google.fr/search?q=LITA to LAD&rls=com.microsoft:...

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Note added at 9 hrs (2011-09-01 21:10:49 GMT)
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OK no worries - having a bad hair day ;-) (fed up with translators accepting jobs they can't do - not you in this case - I've also had legal/admin stuff in medical translations I've had to ask help for :-) )

SJLD
Local time: 02:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 118
Grading comment
Thanks again. Really helpful - it meant I understood exactly what this person had to have done. Thanks again.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, I realise it has been asked but I couldn't understand the acronyms given as answers in the glossary! This sentence will be checked by a proof anyway but I wanted to know what it actually meant. Thanks for the answer and the link.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  texjax DDS PhD: Sure! Good morning!
10 mins
  -> good morning my dear!
agree  Lirka: nice, and yes, at least a zillion of times. but that's from our perspective.... if this is a law document, then I understand that a legal translator was lost
8 hrs
agree  Cedric Randolph: Yes, even though it's in the glossary, I wasn't able to find it and had to research it on the net just a couple of weeks ago.
18 hrs
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Reference comments


3 days 17 hrs
Reference: Coronary arteries in Italian

Reference information:
Just for the future, as a reference. Also has LOTS of links to other pages in Italian about heart disease and treatment.

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Note added at 3 days18 hrs (2011-09-05 06:18:31 GMT)
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And I almost forgot another very useful resource for Italian medical abbreviations -- where you would have found both AMIS and IVA:

http://www.gilbertolacchia.it/acromed.pdf

360 pages of abbreviations (some English as well) ... and it still doesn't cover everything; I hope he updates/expands it one of these days.


    Reference: http://spazioinwind.libero.it/gastroepato2/anatomia_circolo_...
Joseph Tein
United States
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 86
Note to reference poster
Asker: My gooness, thank you. That is really helpful. It really is a different language!!

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