Vein Graft Dissection

Saphenous Vein Graft Dissection Using the GuardWire Distal Protection Balloon

The higher rate of periprocedural adverse events and lower rate of event-free survival of saphenous vein graft (SVG) intervention compared with native coronary artery intervention is primarily due to distal embolization. Distal embolic protection devices have been shown to reduce the incidence of no flow/slow flow and procedure related myocardial infarction during percutaneous intervention of d...

Theoretical approach on vein graft survival: simulation on vein graft

Artery reconstruction in upper extremities is rare performed compared to artery reconstruction in lower extremities. Primary vascular repair was performed in many cases. An interposition vein graft or venous bypass grafting were applied in order to alleviate thrombus in blood vessel. However, one or more of the applied vein graft are blocked or severely narrowed due to the mismatched internal d...

Giant vein graft aneurysm.

A hemodialysis patient presented with an abnormal CXR (Panel A) 13 years after coronary artery bypass grafting and a CT scan was performed (Panel B). Maximal-intensity-projection (Panel C) and 3D reconstructions (Panel D) revealed a large aneurysm, containing thrombus, arising from the vein graft to his right coronary artery (Fig. 1). Fig. 1. (A) Chest radiograph (PA) showing the abnormal right...

Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysms

Viable vein graft preservation.

Homologous vein grafts are becoming increasingly useful in patients without suitable autologous saphenous veins for peripheral arterial bypass procedures [4, 81. However, fresh veins are the only tissue that has been used successfully in homograft vascular reconstruction in terms of long-term patency [4]. The advantages of a reliable method of long-term storage of viable vein segments and the u...