Interobserver variation in duplex scanning of infrainguinal arterial bypass grafts

Arterial Grafts in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the optimal surgical treatment for multi-vessel coronary artery disease. CABG operation has successful shortand intermediate-term results, but the long-term results are variable. The variability of results in long-term particularly depends on the nature of the vascular grafts used. Angiographic studies in long-term have showed that patency rates of arte...

High-risk Patients and High-risk Grafts in Infrainguinal Bypass for Critical Limb Ischaemia

Pharmacology of Arterial Grafts for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Interest has increased in the use of arterial conduits for CABG significantly in most major cardiac surgery centers around the world, because the number of patients receiving arterial grafts and our knowledge about the biologic characteristics of arterial grafts have increased. In addition, more advanced clinical protocols for the use of grafts have been developed and midterm results with alter...

Shape Optimization of an Arterial Bypass in Cardiovascular Systems

A high performance numerical technique in the study of aorto-coronaric bypass anastomoses configurations using steady Stokes equations is presented. The problem is first expressed as an optimal control problem. Then, by using an embedding method, the class of admissible shapes is replaced by a class of positive Borel measures. The optimization problem in measure space is then approximated by ...

Current status of arterial grafts for coronary artery bypass grafting.

For over a decade there has been accumulating evidence that the use of more than a single arterial graft during coronary artery bypass grafting can improve clinical outcomes. However the vast majority of patients in most developed countries still only receive a single arterial conduit even in the presence of multivessel coronary artery disease. This review summarizes the current evidence for th...