Sometimes called the long saphenous vein, it arises from the medial marginal vein of the foot. It terminates as it drains into the femoral vein on the inner (medial) side of the femoral triangle ...

Incompetence of a vein, other than the long saphenous vein, communicating between deep and superficial venous systems in the thigh is not common as a primary finding; it is indicated by rapid ...

Evidence-based recommendations on endovenous laser treatment of the long saphenous vein. This involves using laser and heat to seal up the vein. NICE has also published a guideline on varicose veins ...

Patients undergoing heart bypass surgery using saphenous veins are more likely to have signs of graft failure if they are smokers, even if they quit smoking more than a year earlier.

With a median follow-up of 10 years after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), patients who received a radial artery graft rather than a saphenous vein graft as a second conduit were less ...

Mural cells from saphenous vein could have long-term benefits in heart attacks, study suggests Date: August 25, 2011 Source: University of Bristol ...

Kaplan-Meier estimated 15-year mortality rate was 52.2% in the radial artery group compared with 63.4% in the saphenous vein graft group (HR = 0.74; 95% CI, 0.52-1.04; log rank P = .08), and ...

The great saphenous vein is a large venous blood vessel running near the inside surface of the leg from the ankle to the groin. It arises from the dorsal venous arch at the top (dorsum) of the ...

Long-term (5 to 12 years) serial studies of internal mammary artery and saphenous vein coronary bypass grafts. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1985;89:248-258 Crossref ...

Under ultrasound guidance and local anaesthesia, a catheter is placed into the long saphenous vein. A laser fibre is passed through it and positioned below the saphenofemoral junction. An anaesthetic ...

Stem cell therapies promise to regenerate the infarcted heart through the replacement of dead cardiac cells and stimulation of the growth of new vessels. New research has found the transplantation ...