We spoke with Dr. Nanjundappa about the benefits and limitations of the radial-peripheral approach and his use of guide ...

New long-term data from the CSP 474 trial offers a challenge to some of the conventional wisdom around graft choice in CABG surgery and may further the debate over recent guideline recommendations.

Patients undergoing heart bypass surgery lived longer and had better outcomes when surgeons used a segment of an artery from their arm, called the radial artery, instead of a vein from their leg, ...

Using a previously “instrumented” radial artery—one that has been used for transradial PCI or invasive angiography—as a bypass graft for cardiac surgery is not associated with poor clinical outcomes ...

...surgeons have a choice between using the radial artery or a saphenous vein graft... For many years, the surgeon's graft of choice for patients undergoing CABG surgery has been the left internal ...

October 29, 2008 (Toronto, ON) — Endoscopic harvesting of the radial artery for CABG surgery failed to significantly reduce wound infection when compared with traditional harvesting using the surgical ...

The 20-year angiographic outcome of using the radial artery in CABG surgery is similar to that with the gold standard internal thoracic artery (ITA), according to a prospective, observational study ...

April 5, 2011 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — The radial artery has outperformed the saphenous vein as a conduit for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in a five-year follow-up of patients with ...

George M. Pedersen of Southboro is an active, 73-year-old semi-retired manufacturer's representative who enjoys snorkeling and traveling. He was somewhat surprised two years ago when his cardiologist ...

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A nine-month-old Raghav K. (name changed) has successfully undergone surgery in a private hospital in the city for a radial artery aneurysm, a vascular ailment rarely seen in children. When Raghav was ...

Patients undergoing heart bypass surgery lived longer and had better outcomes when surgeons used a segment of an artery from their arm, called the radial artery, instead of a vein from their leg, ...