BACKGROUND clopidogrel inhibits intimal hyperplasia in animal studies and therefore may reduce saphenous vein graft (SVG) intimal hyperplasia after coronary artery bypass grafting. The Clopidogrel After Surgery for Coronary Artery DiseasE (CASCADE) study was undertaken to evaluate whether the addition of clopidogrel to aspirin inhibits SVG disease after coronary artery bypass grafting, as asses...

OBJECTIVES Graft failure has been reported when the arterial conduit, such as the internal thoracic artery (ITA) or the right gastroepiploic artery (GEA), is grafted to a lower grade coronary artery stenosis. The shear stress as a significant factor affecting graft patency was compared between the arterial conduit and the saphenous vein graft (SVG) after surgery. METHODS In 101 patients, 40 I...

OBJECTIVES This study defined long-term patency of saphenous vein grafts (SVG) and internal mammary artery (IMA) grafts. BACKGROUND This VA Cooperative Studies Trial defined 10-year SVG patency in 1,074 patients and left IMA patency in 457 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). METHODS Patients underwent cardiac catheterizations at 1 week and 1, 3, 6, and 10 years after...

BACKGROUND Stenosis of saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is common and often requires percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) for treatment. However, data for the effectiveness of drug-eluting stents (DES) versus bare-metal stents (BMS) in SVG-PCI are unclear. OBJECTIVES This study sought to examine the association between DES versus BMS used during S...

INTRODUCTION The main limitation of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is rapid neointimal hyperplasia leading to graft failure. AIM To assess plaque formation in saphenous vein grafts (SVG) covered by an external Dacron stent in comparison with the classical technique. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the study group vein grafts covered by external stent mesh made of Dacron were implanted. An i...

The objective of this paper is to show the way multiple source data like aerial photos, maps and descriptive information are combined and amalgamated to form an Internet or Intranet application. The visual outcome is a large scale, precise and detailed image/map displaying the interiors of buildings in a layered fashion, enabling the user to interact with the objects shown on it. Scalable Vecto...

This paper examines the intergenerational correlation of education in rural China. The focus is on the influence of family class origin (jiating chengfen), the political label hung on every family throughout the Maoist era. A nationally representative cross-sectional household survey for 2002 is used. It is shown that the effects of family class origin on family members’ educational attainment ...

A picture produced by logo on the screen can be mirrored into its SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) description on the file. These files provide a high quality records (snap-shots) of logo screen to be included in other documents – web pages. Logo2SVG is a collection of logo commands, for MSW Logo, that by redefining turtle commands support the mirroring of turtle movement into the SVG.

Gran parte de los pacientes con cáncer colon (CC), son diagnosticados y tratados forma electiva. Sin embargo, aproximadamente un 20 % ellos debutará como una emergencia (obstrucción o perforación). El objetivo este estudio fue determinar morbilidad postoperatoria (MPO) supervivencia global (SVG) en resecados por CC perforado (CCP). Serie casos retrospectiva CCP, sometidos a colectomía linf...

E mbolic protection devices (EPDs) were first developed to provide cerebral protection during carotid artery stenting and have led to marked reductions in the combined endpoints of stroke or death.1,2 Therefore, it was natural that these devices should be applied to native coronary and aortocoronary saphenous vein graft (SVG) interventions to reduce clinically significant atheroand thromboembol...