Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with aspirin alone, aspirin plus ticagrelor was associated with reduced risk for vein graft failure and ...

CHICAGO, IL—For patients undergoing CABG with vein grafts, endoscopic harvesting in expert hands is on par with traditional open-harvesting methods in terms of subsequent major adverse cardiac events, ...

Supporting saphenous vein grafts used in CABG with a novel external stent-like device did not decrease the degree of intimal hyperplasia seen at 1 year compared with unsupported grafts, but ...

Pretreating a vein graft with edifoligide prior to coronary bypass graft surgery does not lower the rate of graft failure, according to a study in the November 16 issue of JAMA. This study is being ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of an external saphenous vein graft support device did not improve intimal hyperplasia area in patients ...

Smoking impairs CABG vein grafts Smoking associated with worse saphenous vein graft patency at one and two years after CABG. HealthDay News — Heavy smokers who undergo coronary artery bypass grafting ...

A study confirms that medication-releasing stents reduce scar tissue formation in saphenous vein grafts, and patients receiving them have lower short-term incidence of vessel re-narrowing, heart ...

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 ...

After coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), evolocumab did not reduce saphenous vein graft disease rates at 2 years compared with placebo, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line ...

Vein graft failure caused by neointimal hyperplasia (IH) after coronary artery bypass grafting with saphenous veins is a major clinical problem. The lack of safe and efficient vectors for vascular ...

Endoscopic harvesting of saphenous veins for use in CABG surgery has become standard practice worldwide. This strategy reduces postoperative infection and hospital stay, and increases patients' ...

A 40-year-old man underwent liver transplantation for cirrhosis related to hepatitis B and C viruses in March 2001. Pneumonia and bacteremia with Klebsiella pneumoniae developed. Seven days after ...