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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 10, 327-330, Copyright © 1996 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

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Cephalic veins in coronary artery bypass surgery

P Licht, E Jacobsen, G Lerbjerg, PE Andersen and P Alstrup
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Denmark.

Various alternative conduits for aortocoronary bypass grafting have been suggested when the saphenous vein quality is inadequate. During a 10-year period we have used the cephalic vein in 39 patients. Eighteen entered an angiographic follow-up study. A total of 31 arm vein grafts were used with 43 distal anastomoses. When calculating patency by number of patent distal anastomoses, this was 46% (median follow-up was 31 months), but calculating by the number of patent grafts we found 52% patency (median follow-up 31 months). In conclusion, we discourage others from using arm veins in aortocoronary bypass operations.

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