Compared with the saphenous vein grafts (SVG), radial-artery grafts were significantly less likely to occlude and as likely to be fully patent at one-year angiography in 440 patients who received both ...

Despite the introduction of medications to prevent blocking and spasm, long-term graft patency of the radial artery as a bypass conduit has been questioned. Here, Desai and colleagues compare the ...

Use of a radial artery (located within the forearm, wrist and hand) graft compared with a saphenous vein (from the leg) graft for coronary artery bypass grafting did not result in improved ...

New long-term data from the CSP 474 trial offers a challenge to some of the conventional wisdom around graft choice in CABG surgery and may further the debate over recent guideline recommendations.

Using a previously “instrumented” radial artery—one that has been used for transradial PCI or invasive angiography—as a bypass graft for cardiac surgery is not associated with poor clinical outcomes ...

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The primary outcome of their study, graft occlusion, does not take into account severely diseased grafts. If this outcome were included, there would be no difference between the two types of graft.

...surgeons have a choice between using the radial artery or a saphenous vein graft... For many years, the surgeon's graft of choice for patients undergoing CABG surgery has been the left internal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Arteries, not veins, should be used when performing CABG, according to a new clinical practice guideline from ...

TORONTO, ON — Survival is improved when the right internal mammary artery (RIMA) rather than the radial artery (RA) is used as the second conduit when performing CABG for multivessel disease, a new ...

MUMBAI: Surgeons at the city’s new heart hospital in Mulund performed India’s first coronary bypass with a graft of the radial artery taken from the patient’s forearm with a newly introduced endoscope ...