Conduits used in coronary artery bypass grafting: a review of morphological studies

B Martínez-González, CG Reyes-Hernández… - Annals of Thoracic and …, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
There is a significant variety of vascular conduits options for coronary bypass surgery.
Adequate graft selection is the most important factor for the success of the intervention. To …

Identification of inflammatory mediators and their modulation by strategies for the management of the systemic inflammatory response during cardiac surgery

R Hall - Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2013 - jcvaonline.com
THE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE (man-ifested by pyrexia, leukocytosis,
tachycardia, hypotension, tissue fluid accumulation, and organ failure) is generated during …

The no-touch saphenous vein as the preferred second conduit for coronary artery bypass grafting

M Dreifaldt, JD Mannion, L Bodin, H Olsson… - The Annals of thoracic …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Injury incurred while saphenous veins are being obtained results in poor
graft patency and impairs the results of coronary artery bypass grafting. A novel method of …

Excessive adventitial and perivascular vascularisation correlates with vascular inflammation and intimal hyperplasia

L Bogdanov, D Shishkova, R Mukhamadiyarov… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Albeit multiple studies demonstrated that vasa vasorum (VV) have a crucial importance in
vascular pathology, the informative markers and metrics of vascular inflammation defining …

Coronary artery bypass: review of surgical techniques and impact on long-term revascularization outcomes

B McNichols, JR Spratt, J George, S Rizzi… - Cardiology and …, 2021 - Springer
Coronary revascularization for multivessel disease remains a common and costly source of
hospitalizations in the United States. Surgical techniques influence outcomes for coronary …

Vein graft failure: current clinical practice and potential for gene therapeutics

S Wan, SJ George, C Berry, AH Baker - Gene therapy, 2012 - nature.com
Autologous saphenous vein is commonly used as a conduit to bypass atherosclerotic
lesions in coronary and femoral arteries. Despite the wide use of arterial conduits, which are …

Novel no touch technique of saphenous vein harvesting: Is great graft patency rate provided?

NA Papakonstantinou, NG Baikoussis… - Annals of Cardiac …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery effectively relieves signs and symptoms of
myocardial ischemia. The left internal thoracic artery (LITA) graft is the gold standard having …

Biomechanics and mechanobiology of saphenous vein grafts

KJ Gooch, MS Firstenberg… - Journal of …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Within several weeks of use as coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG), saphenous veins (SV)
exhibit significant intimal hyperplasia (IH). IH predisposes vessels to thrombosis and …

Antiatherosclerotic phenotype of perivascular adipose tissue surrounding the saphenous vein in coronary artery bypass grafting

T Mikami, M Furuhashi, A Sakai… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) is associated with metabolically driven
chronic inflammation called metaflammation, which contributes to vascular function and the …

[HTML][HTML] Arterial shear stress reduces eph-b4 expression in adult human veins

LS Model, MR Hall, DJ Wong, A Muto… - The Yale journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vein graft adaptation to the arterial environment is characterized by loss of venous identity,
with reduced Ephrin type-B receptor 4 (Eph-B4) expression but without increased Ephrin-B2 …