title: Elective Wiktor GX stenting for symptomatic stenosis in old aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass grafts: the Antwerp experience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We compared initial outcome, peri-procedural complications and long-term clinical follow-up of elective Wiktor GX stent implantation in severely narrowed vein grafts to a historic register of elective angioplasties in saphenous vein grafts in the same center.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-one consecutive patients with angina and a history of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), all received elective angioplasty (PTCA) of the diseased graft; we described them as group P. The next 38 consecutive patients were treated with elective angioplasty and Wiktor Stent implantation, followed by one month ticlopidine; they were called group S.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This retrospective study suggests that elective Wiktor stenting in old saphenous vein graft stenosis, in combination with one month ticlopidine, leads to: 1) a better angiographic result, with reduction of peri-procedural complications; and 2) a lower incidence of recurrent angina, need for invasive or surgical re-intervention, myocardial infarction and death during follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, Middelheim Hospital Antwerp, Lindendreef 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Van Langenhove
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vermeersch
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Kay
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaerenberg
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heuten
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stockman
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Convens
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Albertal
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vrints
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Van den Branden
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Van den Heuvel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012501:Saphenous Vein; D015607:Stents; D013988:Ticlopidine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors; D013988:Ticlopidine