Endoscopic harvesting of the radial artery for CABG surgery significantly reduces postoperative wound pain and improves patient satisfaction with the cosmetic results, but there was only a trend ...

Endoscopic harvesting of either the saphenous vein or the radial artery was not used in any trial. The total number of grafts performed was similar in the radial-artery group and the saphenous ...

Endoscopic radial artery harvesting for coronary artery bypass grafting yields a better cosmetic result and improved patient satisfaction based on the first 300 patients to have the procedure at ...

The radial artery has outperformed the saphenous vein as a conduit for coronary artery bypass grafting in a five-year follow-up of patients with multivessel disease undergoing surgery in a ...

Long-term follow-up of patients who have undergone CABG surgery with radial artery grafts instead of saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) offers reassurance that forearm blood flow is preserved, with no ...

The radial artery was first used by Carpentier in 1971, 1 because of a number of potential advantages, including ease of harvesting, a low propensity for wound infection, a larger diameter than ...

These CSP 474 data notwithstanding, Gaudino stressed the overall risk-benefit of radial artery grafting is very favorable, noting that the incidence of harvesting-site complications is very low as ...

A small Chinese trial compared the effects of three oral antispastic medications for 24 weeks post-coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in relation to spasm-induced radial artery graft failure ...

The 20-year patency rate for radial artery grafts used as a conduit in CABG is comparable to use of the left internal thoracic artery, according to a study published in the Journal of the American ...

Sometimes doctors use the radial artery from the wrist in heart bypass surgery. Your doctor would take the artery from your wrist to help create a new pipeline for the blood to the heart.