Coronary artery surgery: the end of the beginning

FD Loop - European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery, 1998 - academic.oup.com
… Progressive coronary disease at 4 years was documented in 27% … bilateral radial arteries
in coronary artery bypass graft surgery, … If late patency of the radial artery conduit proves to be …

Endoscopic radial artery harvesting may be the procedure of choice for coronary artery bypass grafting

G Kim, Y Jeong, Y Cho, J Lee, J Cho - Circulation Journal, 2007 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… We have not experienced radial artery failure as a conduit for bypass. No patients required
conversion to the open technique from the ERH technique. The obtuse marginal branch of …

Radial artery harvesting for coronary artery bypass grafting: a stepwise-made decision

PM Vuković, SS Radak, MS Perić, DG NeŞić… - … of thoracic surgery, 2008 - Elsevier
… The purpose of this study was to propose a safe, stepwise, testing system to select radial
arteries that are suitable for conduits on the basis of their morphologies and characteristics of …

Comparison of the safety of right internal mammary artery versus radial artery for the second arterial conduit during coronary artery bypass grafting

C Dai, W Zhang, Z Lu, H Zhu, S Xue, F Lian - Heart, Lung and Circulation, 2014 - Elsevier
radial artery procedure. Once spasm occurs, the decreased blood supply might lead to a higher
postoperative risk since RA graft is … of procedure is often an important issue for surgeons. …

New conduits for coronary artery bypass

DA Morgenstern, NL Mills - Coronary Artery Disease, 1993 - journals.lww.com
… well, given the fact that graft failure usually occurred within the … radial artery as a coronary
artery bypass graft. After following a patient for over 15 years with a successful radial artery graft

Deciding the fate of radial arteries: Will surgeons take matters in their own hands?

TA Salerno, A Ferreira - The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2019 - jtcvs.org
… Preserving the structural integrity of this peculiar conduit, … of second favorite conduit in
surgical revascularization will … artery bypass graft: use of the IMA in the aorto-to-coronary

Graft function, histopathology and morphometry of radial arteries used as conduits for myocardial revascularization in patients beyond age 70

SM Wildhirt, B Voss, F von Canal… - … -thoracic surgery, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… However, to date, it is not clear whether age per se may be an exclusion criterion for the
radial artery used as a bypass graft. In addition, the severity of atherosclerotic lesions in …

Angiographic patency of coronary artery bypass conduits: a network meta‐analysis of randomized trials

M Gaudino, I Hameed, NB Robinson… - … of the American Heart …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
coronary artery bypass grafting based on graft type, our results will inform surgeons'
decisions and guidelines on grafting … of the Radial Artery Database International Alliance (RADIAL) …

Long-term results of the radial artery used for myocardial revascularization

G Possati, M Gaudino, F Prati, F Alessandrini, C Trani… - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
… as a coronary artery bypass conduit directly anastomosed to … conduit proximally anastomosed
to a mammary graft were … who had triple-vessel coronary disease and almost normal left …

[HTML][HTML] Coronary artery bypass graft patency and competitive flow

JF Sabik, EH Blackstone - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2008 - jacc.org
… as the gastroepiploic, radial, and inferior epigastric arteries (2–4… surgeons in making conduit
decisions for RCA revascularization. Surgeons should no longer use only maximal coronary