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ArticleIndian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2018

Saphenous vein: advances.

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

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Article in Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. No-Touch Saphenous Vein Graft for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Ki-Bong KimDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Ho Young HwangDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Domingos Savio Ramos de SouzaDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
David Paul TaggartDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Oxford, London, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

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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Composite graftCoronary artery bypass graft surgerySaphenous vein

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PMID33060946
PMCPMC7525694

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