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 ...

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.

Most patients were male and 83% underwent elective CABG surgery for stable coronary artery disease. The number of saphenous vein grafts ranged from 1.14 to 3.60 per patient, and drug interventions ...

Researchers enrolled patients aged 18 years and older who had one or more significant saphenous vein graft lesions, defined as 50% to 99% stenosis of a 2.25-mm to 4.5 mm diameter saphenous vein ...

CHICAGO — In patients with critical limb ischemia, surgical revascularization was superior to endovascular revascularization if there was an adequate saphenous vein conduit, according to the ...

Saphenous-vein graft disease after coronary-artery bypass surgery results in a 40 percent rate of graft failure at 10 years. 1 Percutaneous treatment of saphenous-vein grafts is associated with ...

Download this article's Factoid in PDF (& PPT for Gold Subscribers) In the largest randomized trial to date comparing drug-eluting stents (DES) and bare-metal stents (BMS) in saphenous vein graft (SVG ...

Evidence-based recommendations on endoscopic saphenous vein harvest for coronary artery bypass grafting. This involves removing the vein under endoscopic guidance through a small cut near the knee ...

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 ...