[Treatment of aorto-coronary saphenous vein bypass lesions: pros and cons of angioplasty].
Heart patients who have undergone a coronary bypass may present with renewed myocardial ischemia, often connected with bypass dysfunction. The saphenous bypass is the most frequently implicated, and palliative revascularization may be envisaged, either by further bypass surgery, or by angioplasty. The latter approach has been developed since the beginning of the 1980s, and since that time there has been considerable technical and pharmacological progress in performing this type of graft. However the indications for angioplasty and its comparison with reoperation remain controversial. In the present study, it therefore seemed pertinent to include the respective opinions of two experts in the field of angioplasty and coronary bypass surgery.
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Centre hospitalier sud-francilien, service de cardiologie, site Corbeil, 59, boulevard Henri-Dunant, 91108 Corbeil-Essonnes, France.
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D017130:Angioplasty; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000601:surgery*