title: [Imaging of aortocoronary bypasses with intravenous digital subtraction angiography].
abstract: We examined 24 patients with 52 coronary bypass grafts, an average of 18 months after their respective operations. During the course of 1 week, a coronary angiography and a digital subtraction angiography (DSA) incorporating an intravenous injection of contrast medium were performed. Conventional coronary angiograms showed 40 bypasses as being open, ten as being occluded, and two could not be displayed at all. With the aid of digital angiography, 50 out of 52 bypasses could be classified as either open or occluded. In 44 out of 52 bypasses, DSA and coronary angiogram results were identical. Using DSA, three out of ten angiographically occluded bypasses were falsely diagnosed as being open and three out of 40 open bypasses as occluded. Two bypasses could not be interpreted due to poor picture quality. In the diagnosis "open bypass" the degree of both sensitivity and specificity subsequently amounted to 92.5%, and 70% in the diagnosis "occluded bypass". The distal part of the bypasses, as well as the proximal and distal part of the anastomoses, could not be evaluated for the most part. Furthermore, on account of the comparatively inferior quality of the pictures, detection of bypass stenosis is not reliable using digital subtraction angiography. Intravenous digital subtraction angiography may therefore serve as a screening method in the evaluation of coronary bypass grafts.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Kardiologie, Universitätsklinik Frankfurt/Main.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sievert
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rauber
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kunkel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schork
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Satter
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Riemann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaltenbach
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kober
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013382:Subtraction Technique
vernacular_title: Darstellung aortokoronarer Bypasses mit der intravenösen digitalen Subtraktionsangiographie.