Major cardiac events were fewer at 5 years in patients receiving a radial artery graft as the second conduit in coronary bypass surgery (CABG) vs a saphenous-vein graft (SVG) in a patient-level ...

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 ...

Patients undergoing heart bypass surgery lived longer and had better outcomes when surgeons used a segment of an artery from their arm, called the radial artery, instead of a vein from their leg, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of radial artery grafts for CABG was linked to lower risk for CV outcomes and improved survival compared ...

September 8, 2011 (Paris, France) — The right internal thoracic artery (RITA) is a better vessel to use than the radial artery (RA) for multiple arterial revascularizations during coronary artery ...

The 20-year angiographic outcome of using the radial artery in CABG surgery is similar to that with the gold standard internal thoracic artery (ITA), according to a prospective, observational study ...

One-year findings from the Distal versus Proximal Radial Artery Access for Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention (DIPRA) study were presented today as late-breaking clinical research at the Society ...

Medtronic plc MDT recently received the CE Mark for its radial artery access portfolio, consisting of the Rist 079 Radial Access Guide Catheter and the Rist Radial Access Selective Catheter. This ...

Patients undergoing heart bypass surgery lived longer and had better outcomes when surgeons used a segment of an artery from their arm, called the radial artery, instead of a vein from their leg, ...