BACKGROUND Saphenous vein graft (SVG) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) carries a high risk of ischemic complications. However, there are scant recent data to identify which SVG lesions carry particularly high risk in recent years. We studied demographic and angiographic factors associated with ischemic complications after SVG PCI without distal protection in the TARGET (do tirofiban and...

BACKGROUND Treatment of saphenous vein graft (SVG) stenosis with percutaneous coronary intervention has a 15% to 20% incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) within 30 days. Although MACE rates are reduced significantly by the use of embolic protection devices (EPDs), neither the level of baseline risk nor the benefit provided by EPDs has been well characterized. METHODS AND RESULTS D...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine if an incomplete response to or inadequate antiplatelet effect of aspirin, or both, contribute to saphenous vein graft (SVG) occlusion after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. BACKGROUND Thrombosis is the predominant cause of early SVG occlusion. Aspirin, which inhibits cyclooxygenase-1 activity and thromboxane generation in plat...

Software visualisation employs various representations of software to help programmers better understand program code. However, there are many technologies that can be used to deliver software visualisations. These different software visualisation media have varying capabilities, and determining which medium is best suited for a particular software visualisation application can be a complex tas...

This paper presents an approach to map EPC business process models available in EPML to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and websites. This mapping has been implemented as an XSLT transformation program called EPML2SVG. Such a transformation may serve as a reference for visual tools that use EPML. Furthermore, business process models available in SVG can be used in web presentations and they can ...

UNLABELLED Coronary artery bifurcation disease of saphenous venous graft (SVG) is extremely rare. SVG disease remains a challenging lesion to treat because of increased morbidity and mortality with repeated coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), high rates of periprocedural complications, and in-stent restenosis or occlusion requiring repeat revascularization with percutaneous coronary in...

A 75-year-old man presented with dyspnea requiring home oxygen, on a background of partial colectomy for colon cancer, chronic renal failure, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery in 1978 (left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending graft and saphenous vein grafts [SVG] to the right coronary artery [RCA] and left circumflex artery). Clinically, he had jugular venous distension a...

Saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure secondary to degeneration can cause significant problems after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Repeat revascularization by percutaneous coronary intervention can be performed after SVG failure but is often associated with less favourable clinical outcome. Treatment for chronic total occlusion (CTO) of native vessels after SVG failure among patients with...

The XML-based specification for Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG), sponsored by the World Wide Web consortium, allows for compact and descriptive vector graphics for the Web. SVG's domain of discourse is that of graphic primitives whose optional attributes express line thickness, fill patterns, text size and so on. These primitives have very different properties from those of the traditional docume...

IntuiLab designs highly interactive UIs that often feature multimodal capacities: gesture recognition, speech recognition, etc. We have started to use SVG for the graphical modality at the core of our UI programming environment: IntuiKit. Our portfolio includes UIs with high−end graphics for Air−Traffic control centers, in−car systems and for e−government services. Using SVG has lead us to impr...