title: [Pathohistologic changes in aortocoronary venous grafts].
abstract: This paper analyses histological changes of venous grafts in 52 obduction cases who had undergone aortocoronary bypass grafting and in whom death occurred after more than 30 days from surgery. The group consisted of 46 males and 6 females. The mean age at the moment of surgery was 51.5, while on the average the patients lived 4.83 years after the surgery. 144 venous grafts were implanted, that is 2.77 per patient. In 49 (34.03%) venous grafts fibrosis intima was established. As in 43 (29.86%) grafts it did not cause occlusion of the lumen greater than 25%, these kinds of grafts were marked as unchanged, normal. In 43 (29.00%) grafts atherosclerosis was established, in 14 (9.72%) fibrointimal proliferation, and in 38 (26.39) lumen obliteration. A year after the surgery the most important pathohistologic change was fibrointimal proliferation, and two years after the surgery and on-atherosclerosis. The percentage of certain pathohistologic types of graft changes, no matter how long patients survived after the surgery was the same in both patients with implants of the coronary artery and those with anterior interventricular branch of the left coronary artery. Grafts implanted into branches of the circumflex artery were statistically significantly more often obliterated. The locality of anastomosis of the venous graft and artery was not occluded in 67.31% of all obduction cases, whereas it was occluded in 32.69% of cases or 32 (22.22%) implanted grafts. Occlusions were caused by atherosclerotic change of the anastomosis in 84.37% of grafts, and by simultaneous occurrence of atherosclerotic change and thromb in 15.63% of grafts.
authors.affiliation: Institut za plućne bolesti i tuberkulozu, Sremska Kamenica, Zavod za patologiju i dijagnosticku citologiju.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vucković
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vucković
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014680:Veins / Q000473:pathology / Q000637:transplantation