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Surgical aspects of no-touch saphenous vein graft harvesting in cabg: clinical and angiographic follow-up at 3 months

Abstract With more than 800,000 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) operations annually worldwide and the saphenous vein being the most common conduit used, there is no question that improving saphenous vein graft patency is one of the most important tasks in CABG. This video describes the no-touch ha...

Does moderate coronary stenosis affect the fate of the left internal thoracic artery graft?

Abstract Introduction: In this study we try to observe the fate of the left internal thoracic artery grafts that were bypassed to left anterior descending artery with moderate stenosis identified with fractional flow reserve (FFR) technique. Doppler ultrasonography was chosen as a noninvasive screening ...

Factors Associated With Coronary Artery Disease Progression Assessed By Serial Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography

Arq. bras. cardiol; 108 (5), 2017
Abstract Background: Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) allows for noninvasive coronary artery disease (CAD) phenotyping. Factors related to CAD progression are epidemiologically valuable. Objective: To identify factors associated with CAD progression in patients undergoing sequential CCTA...

Intervencionismo coronario complejo con solapamiento de dispositivos biorreabsorbibles. Reporte de caso y revisión de nuevas perspectivas en el uso de dispositivos biorreabsorbibles guiado por tomografía de coherencia óptica

Arch. cardiol. Méx; 86 (2), 2016
Resumen La historia del intervencionismo percutáneo coronario ha tenido en los últimos años una evolución notable. Actualmente en México están disponibles los dispositivos vasculares biorreabsorbibles, los cuales tienen indicaciones precisas, y ofrecen una nueva opción en el intervencionismo coron...