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Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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01-12-2018 | Review Article

Saphenous vein: advances

Authors: Ki-Bong Kim, Ho Young Hwang, Domingos Savio Ramos de Souza, David Paul Taggart

Published in: Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | Special Issue 3/2018

Abstract

Although the saphenous vein (SV) is a widely used conduit for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), lower long-term graft patency rates and worse clinical outcomes have been reported after CABG performed with SV grafts compared with CABG performed with internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafts. Of various efforts to overcome the limitations of SV that are resulting from structural and functional differences from arterial conduit, recent improvement in harvesting techniques including no-touch technique, surgical strategy of using the SV as part of a composite graft over an aortocoronary bypass graft, and external stenting of the SV will be discussed in this topic.

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Title: Saphenous vein: advances
Authors: Ki-Bong Kim
Ho Young Hwang
Domingos Savio Ramos de Souza
David Paul Taggart
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Published in: Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery / Issue Special Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0970-9134
Electronic ISSN: 0973-7723
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-018-0753-9

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