Saphenous vein graft (SVG) anastomotic lesions can have significant fibromuscular hyperplasia and may be resistant to balloon angioplasty alone. Stents have been used successfully to treat these lesions. There are no reports of immediate stent recoil following such treatment in the literature. We describe immediate and persistent stent recoil in an anastomotic SVG lesion even after initial and ...

In this paper we present a case study for the creation of an open system for graphically developing symbolic notation which can function both as professional quality print or online documentation, as well as a computer performable score in electro-acoustic music and other computer aided contexts. Leveraging Adobe Illustrator’s graphic design tools and support for the Scalable Vector Graphics (S...

Case presentation An 81-year-old man was admitted to our institution with symptoms and signs consistent with acute lung oedema. He had a history of hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia and had undergone cardiac surgery in July 2005 due to severe aortic stenosis and three vessels disease. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with a saphenous vein graft (SVG) to left anterior descending (LAD)...

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains a vital treatment for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD), especially diabetics. The long-term benefit of the internal thoracic artery graft is well established and remains the gold standard for revascularization of severe CAD. It is not always possible to achieve complete revascularization through arterial grafts, necessitating...

BACKGROUND We investigated clinical and procedural factors associated with the no-reflow phenomenon following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of the saphenous-vein grafts (SVG). METHODS A cross-sectional study was done on patients who had undergone PCI of the SVG. Patients' medical documents were reviewed for demographic, clinical, laboratory, and procedural data. Slow/no-reflow was ...

BACKGROUND The results of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for saphenous vein graft (SVG) disease are limited by distal embolisation and no-reflow which occurs in 10-43% of cases. AIM To examine the role of a new protocol of adenosine administration during PCI in SVG on immediate angiographic results and clinical course. METHODS A prospective, single-centre, randomised placebo-contr...

OBJECTIVE To date only a few randomized controlled studies have compared grafting strategies in patients with multi-vessel coronary disease. This study represents a pilot RCT designed to test the feasibility of a trial comparing conventional CABG performed with a LIMA-LAD plus saphenous vein grafts (LIMA+SVG) and CABG performed with total arterial grafting (TAG). METHODS Consenting patients u...

A range of tools offer possibilities for transforming geodata to SVG. We do not want to add yet another of such map generation projects, but investigate the general possibilities and restrictions for bidirectional XSL transformations between GML (Geographic Markup Language), SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor), and SVG. This is necessary in order to develop standards-based GIS applications supporting...

In this paper we present our findings of our continued investigation into the use of Scalable Vector Graphics as a genotype representation in evolutionary art. In previous work we investigated the feasibility of SVG as a genetic representation for evolutionary art, and found that the representation was very flexible, but that the potential visual output was somewhat limited by the simplicity of...

This study was designed to compare the safety and efficacy of sirolimus-eluting stents (SESs) to paclitaxel-eluting stents (PESs) in percutaneous intervention of saphenous vein graft (SVG) lesions. SVGs develop atherosclerosis at high rates and often require repeat revascularization. Percutaneous intervention with drug-eluting stents has become the preferred method of revascularization due to h...