We present the case of 56-year-old woman who required complex coronary artery bypass grafting for high-risk anomalous left main coronary artery (LMCA) originating from right coronary cusp including conventional reimplantation of the LMCA plus left internal mammary artery (LIMA) graft to the left anterior descending (LAD) and saphenous vein graft (SVG) to the left circumflex (LCx). On subsequent...

The objective of this paper is to address two issues of current Internet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) programs – interoperability and graphic image output issues – using standard-based technologies, specifically, the Geography Markup Language (GML), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and the OpenGIS Web Feature Service (WFS) Implementation Specifications developed by the OpenGIS Consortium ...

A73-year-old hypertensive, dyslipidemic man with known complex coronary artery disease has had operative revascularization twice in the last 10 years. He has also undergone multiple angioplasty procedures on the saphenous vein graft (SVG) to the obtuse marginal (OM) and right coronary arteries. The left internal mammary artery conduit to the left anterior descending artery remains patent. The S...

This paper describes how the web standards Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are used in teaching at the Vienna University of Technology. SMIL and SVG are used in courses on multimedia authoring. Didactically, the goal is to teach students how to use media objects and timing concepts to build interactive media applications. Additionally, SMIL...

BACKGROUND Although the risk for development of creatine kinase (CK-MB) elevation after saphenous vein graft (SVG) intervention is high, its prognostic significance remains unknown. This study evaluated the impact of periprocedural CK-MB elevation on late clinical events following successful SVG angioplasty. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 1056 consecutive patients with successful (defined by ...

Die Verarbeitung von raumbezogenen Informationen hat in den letzten Jahren im Agrarsektor neue Perspektiven eröffnet und gewinnt stetig an Bedeutung. Insbesondere bei der Beauftragung agrarspezifischer Dienstleistungen, z.B. Bodenproben, Lohnaufträgen oder Beratungsdienstleistungen, werden raumbezogene Informationen benötigt. Allerdings ist die Bereitstellung der notwendigen Informationen oftma...

We report the case of a 78-year-old woman with saphenous vein graft (SVG) disease and chronic total occlusion (CTO) in three native coronary arteries [left anterior descending artery (LAD), left circumflex artery, and the right coronary artery], who was successfully treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using the retrograde approach via the critically degenerated SVGs. The patient...

A 57-year-old male visited our clinic with chief complaint of exertional chest pain. He had been on anti-hypertensive medication for 15 years. In 1999, he went through coronary artery bypass graft surgery for myocardial infarction, using an aorto-left anterior descending artery (LAD) bypass with the left internal mammary artery, and aorto-right coronary artery (RCA) bypass with saphenous vein. ...

BACKGROUND The optimal target for revascularization in patients with history of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is unclear. This study was designed to compare the outcome of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on saphenous vein grafts (SVG) and that on native vessels in patients with previous CABG in terms of major adverse cardiac events (MACE). METHODS The study drew upon da...

Autologous saphenous vein bypass grafts (SVG) are frequently compromised by neointimal thickening and subsequent atherosclerosis eventually leading to graft failure. Hyaluronic acid (HA) generated by smooth muscle cells (SMC) is thought to augment the progression of atherosclerosis. The aim of the present study was (1) to investigate HA accumulation in native and explanted arterialized SVG, (2)...