A 10-year angiographic follow-up of competitive flow in sequential and composite arterial grafts☆

Hiroyuki Nakajima, Junjiro Kobayashi, Koji Toda, Tomoyuki Fujita, Yusuke Shimahara, Yoichiro Kasahara, Soichiro Kitamura

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery · 2011 · 53 citations · 20 references

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Abstract

Competitive flow can be efficiently avoided by appropriate graft arrangement and patients' selection. Selection of the target of the graft end would be crucial to achieve antegrade bypass flow and long-term patency of entire sequential bypass grafts. For the composite graft, functional recovery of the occluded graft would be extremely rare.

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