Approximately 95% of patients of any age undergoing contemporary, coronary bypass
surgery will receive at least 1 saphenous vein graft (SVG). It is recognized that SVG will …

Although the saphenous vein is a widely used conduit for coronary artery bypass grafting,
revascularization using the saphenous vein as an aortocoronary bypass graft has shown …

Background This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of functional and anatomic
complete revascularization on long-term clinical outcomes after coronary artery bypass …

OBJECTIVES Since 2000, we anastomosed the saphenous vein graft to the right coronary
artery system using the stump of the right internal thoracic artery as inflow. The long-term …

Objectives This study was conducted to evaluate graft patency rates during the 5 years after
coronary artery bypass grafting according to the functional significance of the coronary artery …

OBJECTIVES Data on the safety and efficacy of clopidogrel (CPD) monotherapy after
coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are limited. We compared the clinical outcomes and …

The transition from the second to the third millennium happened to be a turning point in the
history of myocardial revascularization on a beating heart, which moved from technical …

Background and Objectives: Surgical revascularisation of patients with atherosclerosis of the
ascending aorta remains a challenge. Different surgical strategies have been described in …

Introduction: This single-center study of propensity-matched data was performed to assess
the effect of the no-touch saphenous vein (NTSV) harvesting technique on early-and long …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND We evaluated the prevalence and outcomes of competitive flow
in terminal right coronary artery (RCA) graft following coronary artery bypass grafting …