BACKGROUND The MGuard™ stent (InspireMD, Tel Aviv, Israel) is a bare metal mesh-covered stent, developed to prevent no-reflow phenomenon during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of saphenous vein grafts (SVG) and acute myocardial infarction (MI), both associated with significant atherothrombotic lesions. OBJECTIVES To report on local experience with patients treated with the MGuard ste...

BACKGROUND The eSVS® external venous nitinol mesh (Kips Bay Medical, Minneapolis, USA) was designed to improve long-term patency of coronary saphenous vein grafts (SVG) by preventing pressure-induced wall stress and reactive neo-intimal hyperplasia. We present one-year-patency rates of meshed SVGs assessed by coronary computed tomographic angiography (cCTA). PATIENTS AND METHODS Data from con...

BACKGROUND A call has recently been made by the public health and medical communities to understand the neighborhood context of a patient's life in order to improve education and treatment. To do this, methods are required that can collect "contextual" characteristics while complementing the spatial analysis of more traditional data. This also needs to happen within a standardized, transferable...

Controversy surrounding the issue of greater wound morbidity when using the ‘no-touch’ (NT) saphenous vein graft (SVG) when compared with the conventional (CON) harvesting technique has been addressed for the first time by the recent study of Verma et al. [1], who showed no significant difference in wound complications and functional recovery after 1 year of follow-up. Due to the relatively low...

BACKGROUND Cali, Colombia has experienced chikungunya and Zika outbreaks and hypoendemic dengue. Studies have explained Cali's dengue patterns but lack the sub-neighborhood-scale detail investigated here. METHODS Spatial-video geonarratives (SVG) with Ministry of Health officials and Community Health Workers were collected in hotspots, providing perspective on perceptions of why dengue, chiku...

We report a case of a 74-year-old male, who presented with an acute ST elevation posterior wall myocardial infarction (MI) 21 years following revascularization with three saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) to the left and right coronary arteries. In coronary angiography (CAG), the dilated SVG to the first marginal branch of the circumflex artery appeared only contrast enhanced in the proximal portion...

in the LIMA-SVB. We believe that a valveless segment is preferable, and the diameter of the SVG should match the LIMA as closely as possible. In the ongoing prospective-randomized clinical trial AMI-PONT (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01585285 [5], CIHR funded), we are assessing whether the LIMA-SVB patency is not inferior to the conventional CABG strategy combining a separated LIMA graft to the LAD an...

Electron and light microscopy were used to study the dorsal gland (DG) and the two subventral glands (SvG) of seven developmental phases of Nacobbus aberrans: pre-parasitic second-stage juveniles (J2), parasitic J2, third- (J3) and fourth- (J4) stages, migratory females, young sedentary females, and mature sedentary females. In each developmental phase the level of esophageal gland activity, wa...

Manuscript received January 12, 2016; accepted January 20, 2016. underwent cardiac catheterization, which revealed a giant saphenous vein graft aneurysm (SVGA) arising from the left circumflex artery (LCX) graft (Online Video 1). We performed computed tomography with 3-dimensional reconstruction, which revealed an 11 9 9-cm SVGA 8.5 cm distal to the origin of the ascending aorta with a mass eff...

Stent implantation into aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts (SVG) releases particulate debris and soluble vasoactive mediators, for example, serotonin. We now analyzed effects of the soluble mediators released into the coronary arterial blood during stent implantation on vasomotion of isolated rat epicardial coronary artery segments and on coronary flow and left ventricular developed pressure i...