BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of sealing intermediate nonobstructive coronary saphenous vein graft (SVG) lesions with drug-eluting stents (DES; paclitaxel- or everolimus-eluting stents) for reducing major adverse cardiac events (MACE). METHODS AND RESULTS This was a randomized controlled multicenter clinical trial that enrolled patients with a previous coro...

BACKGROUND The influence of an internal mammary artery (IMA) graft on long-term outcomes after percutaneous saphenous vein graft (SVG) intervention is currently unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS To examine the impact of IMA on outcomes in patients undergoing SVG interventions, we analyzed 2119 patients from the Duke Cardiovascular Disease Database (1986-2003) with prior coronary artery bypass surg...

A New Static Var Generator (SVG), using cascaded full-bridge inverters (FBI) with binary output levels and the parallel connections of two cascaded inverters by means of current sharing reactor in each phases is introduced. The new M-level inverter, where M is 2n+2 - 3, consists of only 2n single-phase full bridges for each phases. The proposed technique not only increases the current capacity ...

This paper describes an extension of SVG that supports the drawing of graphs in terms of nodes and edges in between nodes. The graph drawing primitives support a variety of different node shapes, edge connection points, and edges. Both nodes and edges can be labeled. Two or more nodes can be aggregated as a single node, and an entire graph can be embedded into a single node. In addition, a numb...

This paper discusses how to provide spatial analysis for XML/GML/SVG based WebGIS. In recognition of current XML/GML/SVG based WebGIS’s insufficiency of providing spatial analysis, we focus on two important issues. First, based on the theory of spatial data modeling, we propose an SVG-based spatial information representation model to represent the needed spatial data in SVG on the browser side....

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) has an imaging model similar to that of PostScript and PDF but the XML basis of SVG allows it to participate fully, via namespaces, in generalised XML documents. There is increasing interest in using SVG as a Page Description Language and we examine ways in which SVG document components can be encapsulated in contexts where SVG will be used as a rendering technolo...

The pathophysiology of accelerated atherosclerosis in saphenous vein grafts (SVG) relates to progressive atheroma burden, neointimal hyperplasia, and vascular remodeling.1,2 Unfortunately, the therapeutic and clinical consequences of SVG disease are not trivial, and interventional cardiologists are wary of performing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) on degenerated SVG. Intervening on f...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) has historically been associated with a high risk of adverse ischemic events, but there is a paucity of contemporary data on the second-generation drug-eluting stent use within SVG, and the relative importance of high platelet reactivity (HPR) in SVG PCI versus native lesion PCI is unknown. We studied ischemic a...

To study regional lung function by standard CT and characterize regional variations of density and specific gas volume (SVg) between different lung volumes, we studied 10 healthy and 10 severe emphysematous subjects. Correspondent CT images taken at high and low lung volumes were registered by optical flow to obtain 2-D maps of pixel-by-pixel differences of density (HU) and SVg (SVg) at slice...

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a XML based markup language used to describe and integrate vector graphics, raster graphics and text. SVG is developed by the W3C web consortium as an official web standard, with the support of major computer graphics and mobile phone companies, such as Adobe, Canon, Corel, IBM, Kodak, Nokia, Opera, Sun, etc. SVG Mobile was furthermore adopted by the 3GPP conso...