The no-touch saphenous vein for coronary artery bypass grafting maintains a patency, after 16 years, comparable to the left internal thoracic artery: A randomized trial

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 880-888

  Samano, Ninos ^a   Geijer, Håkan ^a   Liden, Mats ^a   Fremes, Stephen ^b   Bodin, Lennart ^c   Souza, Domingos ^a  

^a Örebro University   (Sweden)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

coronary artery bypass grafting; left internal thoracic artery; saphenous vein graft

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MAMMARY ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 84942838761     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.07.027     Document Type: Article

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