BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The greater saphenous vein has been used in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for more than 50 years. Endoscopic vein harvesting has greatly reduced the morbidity associated with obtaining the vein, but the quality of the vein could not be assessed before its was exposed surgically or after the endoscopic procedure had been performed. This study was conducted to e...

Background/Introduction Endothelial injury during the surgical intervention can significantly affect the functional status of the vein. The endothelial layer plays a vital role in the long saphenous vein for ensuring smooth blood flow and the prevention of vasoconstriction and thrombi formation within the blood vessels. There are few histological studies comparing the different vein harvesting ...

The small saphenous vein (SSV) is an important graft in limb salvage surgery. It is frequently translocated for bypass surgery. Sometimes, the use of the SSV as an in-situ graft for posterior tibial artery or peroneal artery reconstruction offers the advantages of reduced vein graft injury and improved patency. Recently, saphenous vein mapping through computed tomography (CT) volume rendering t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess clinical complications of limbs undergone harvesting of the great saphenous vein for venous coronary artery bypass graft surgery using bridge technique. METHODS Fourty-four patients who had undergone CABG using the great saphenous vein harvested by the bridge technique over more than 3 months ago were randomly selected. The exclusion criteria were...

Corresponding author: Michael R. Dashwood MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, University College London Medical School, Pond St, NW3 2QG London, United Kingdom, phone: +44 (0)20 7794 0500, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 11.01.2017, accepted: 23.01.2017. Neointima development in externally stented saphenous vein grafts. External stents are bad for the patient: why not use an undamaged saphen...

Coronary artery perforation as a result of percutaneous coronary intervention is a rare complication which may result in cardiac tamponade, myocardial infarction and death. Perforation of a saphenous vein graft is unusual and generally requires surgical intervention. We describe a novel percutaneous approach that facilitated the successful management of a potentially catastrophic saphenous vein...

Rotational Atherectomy in Clinical Practice: The Art of Tightrope Walking Goran Stankovic, MD, PhD; Dejan Milasinovic, MD · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · e004571 The VELETI II Trial (Sealing Moderate Coronary Saphenous Vein Graft Lesions With Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents): Local Mechanical Intervention Fails to Stop Atheroprogression in Saphe...

Citation: Wise ES and Brophy CM (2016) The Case for Endothelial Preservation via Pressure-Regulated Distension in the Preparation of Autologous Saphenous Vein Conduits in Cardiac and Peripheral Bypass Operations. Front. Surg. 3:54. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2016.00054 The Case for Endothelial preservation via pressure-Regulated Distension in the preparation of Autologous Saphenous Vein Conduits in Car...

Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operations are one of the most commonly performed sur‐ gical procedures, with a worldwide prevalence of over 800,000 annually and more than 350,000 operations being performed in the United States each year [1]. The use of the left internal mam‐ mary artery (LIMA) is widely considered to be the gold standard for conventional CABG opera‐ tions. Its use has been...

The modulation of serotonin (5-HT(1B/1D)) receptor-induced vascular contractility by histamine and U-46619 was compared in the rabbit basilar artery and saphenous vein. In the saphenous vein, histamine (5 x 10(-7) M) significantly increased the potency (from pEC(50) of 6.0 to 6.8) and efficacy (from 52.3% to 88.2%) of sumatriptan. Likewise, U-46619 (5 x 10(-9) M) also increased the potency (fro...