Objectives: The long-term patency rates for individual and sequential saphenous vein grafts
(SVG) as coronary bypass conduits are angiographically compared; the impact of native …

Objective: We studied retrospectively the patency of grafts after coronary artery bypass
grafting (CABG) using serial angiographies performed one year and five years after surgery …

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the long-term differences in survival between
multiple arterial grafts (MAG) and single arterial grafts (SAG) in patients who underwent …

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to compare elective angiographic patency and
cardiac event-free survival of the radial artery graft with that of the free right internal thoracic …

Various arterial grafts have been used for coronary artery bypass grafting, but a unanimous
opinion on how to best use these grafts has not been formed. Arterial grafts are not uniform …

Myocardial ischaemia resulting from obstructive coronary artery disease is a major cause of
morbidity and mortality in the developed world. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery …

Background Currently, saphenous vein (SV) and radial artery (RA) are the most commonly
used conduits in combination with the left internal mammary artery for conventional coronary …

BACKGROUND: Saphenous vein grafts continue to be the backbone of daily coronary
revascularization practice, but controversy still exists about whether to use them as an …

OBJECTIVES Saphenous vein graft (SVG) remains the predominant conduit used in
coronary surgery. The internal mammary artery has higher later term patency and confers …

Both the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study and the European Coronary Surgery
Study have provided only brief accounts of graft patency rates in their surgically treated …