Long-term patency of cephalic vein in coronary bypass surgery.
In the situation where the saphenous veins were unavailable, cephalic vein was the second choice in the beginning of 1980s. The routine use of saphenous vein and recent enthusiasm for arterial surgical myocardial revascularization lead to less attention on this conduit. We reported a patient undergoing redo coronary bypass surgery after 18 years of having cephalic vein grafts.
Tjang
Yanto Sandy
YS
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart & Diabetes Center NRW, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. yst-jang@hotmail.com
Hornik
Lech
L
Seifert
Dirk
D
Körfer
Reiner
R
D000368:Aged; D001132:Arm / Q000098:blood supply*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012086:Reoperation; D014654:Vascular Patency; D014680:Veins / Q000637:transplantation*