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 ...

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 ...

Nagpur: More and more cardiac surgeons in city are gradually adopting the bilateral (both sides) internal mammary arteries (BIMA) technique for performing a coronary arterial bypass graft (CABG) for ...

A novel, stent-shaped device that provides external buttressing to saphenous vein grafts placed during coronary artery bypass surgery was safe, but failed to improve 12-month patency of vein grafts, ...

MUNICH, Germany (UPDATED)—Surgeons expecting to see a win for bilateral internal-thoracic artery (ITA) grafts at the 10-year mark in the Arterial Revascularization Trial (ART) will be disappointed ...

CONSIDERABLE relief of symptoms has been reported for patients with angina pectoris subjected to bilateral ligation of the internal mammary arteries. 1–4 The physiologic basis for the relief of angina ...

Sponsoring Organizations: the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (developed with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons) ...

A radial artery taken from a patient's wrist or arm, versus a saphenous vein from the leg or thigh, has been shown to provide the best outcome five years after coronary artery bypass grafting. The ...