Patients with saphenofemoral junction insufficiency and great saphenous vein (GSV) reflux can be treated conventionally by stripping of the saphenous vein or by a newer strategy of endovenous laser or ...

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 ...

For optimal 1-year results, in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting who need percutaneous coronary ...

Drug-eluting stents were associated with a 28% reduction in mortality compared with bare-metal stents in a cohort of patients undergoing PCI for stenosis of saphenous vein grafts, according to new ...

Coronary bypass surgery requires a doctor to pry open a patient's chest and sew in new blood vessels to create a "bypass" route for blood that is trying to travel through clogged arteries near the ...

It's more likely than not that an adult in the US will develop varicose veins. Drs Thom Rooke, Jeremy Friese, and Haraldur Bjarnason recently joined host Dr Robert McBane to discuss the newest ...

In patients undergoing CABG surgery, the use of radial-artery grafts as a second conduit results in a lower incidence of adverse cardiac events and a higher patency rate at 5 years compared with ...

Smoking Impairs Saphenous Vein Conduits in CABG Surgery Patients undergoing heart bypass surgery using saphenous veins are more likely to have signs of graft failure if they are smokers, even if they ...