The total number of grafts performed was similar in the radial-artery group and the saphenous-vein group. The target vessel was the left circumflex coronary artery and the right coronary artery in ...

Prior to sterile prepping the course of the great saphenous vein in visualized in real time with ultrasound and marked with permanent ink. This guides the surgeon in both insertion of the ablation ...

April 5, 2011 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — The radial artery has outperformed the saphenous vein as a conduit for ... hand (which for most people is the left), while interventionalists usually ...

One of the following OPCS-4 codes is used to classify the coronary artery bypass grafting with a saphenous vein graft, depending on the number of arteries replaced: K40.1 Saphenous vein graft ...

The unsightly veins seen on the surface of the leg are actually caused by an incompetent saphenous vein, the main vein that runs the length of the inner leg. Valves in the vein become weak and ...

Previous studies have established the superiority of the left internal thoracic artery over saphenous-vein grafts for revascularization of the left anterior descending coronary artery. 10 A recent ...