Even limited use of veins appears to diminish the long-term benefits of an all-arterial approach,” says Alistair Royse.

During bypass surgery, a surgeon connects healthy blood vessels to bypass a blocked artery. It is often needed for those with ...

Background: The prognostic value of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) may be suboptimal when guided solely by anatomical stenosis severity. Quantitative flow ratio (QFR), a computational ...

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is an efficient and widely performed procedure in cardiac surgery services around the world. The extensive experience made it possible to use different types of ...

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 ...

From the Duke University Medical Center (W.R.B., D.D.G.), Durham, NC; Hahnemann University (A.S.W.), Philadelphia, Pa; the Duke Clinical Research Institute (R.H.T., L ...

ABSTRACT: Objective: The internal thoracic artery (ITA) is the conduit of choice for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). To avoid spasm of the ITA various topical vasodilators have been suggested ...

This poll asked readers to weigh the patient's early age and low surgical risk against co-morbidities of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus and morbid obesity when considering conduit choice for ...

Objective: After coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, the main causes of poor instant patency of left internal mammary arteries (LIMAs) are competitive flow and anastomotic stenosis, but ...

Although previous studies have demonstrated that patients receiving bilateral internal mammary artery (BIMA) conduits during coronary artery bypass grafting have better long-term survival than those ...