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Patency of Saphenous Vein Grafts Using the PAS-Port System During Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Submitted by

Arie Blitz

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(16)31616-2/abstract

Author(s)

Hiroshi Kubota, MD Hiroshi Kubota, MD Hiroshi Kubota, Hidehito Endo, MD, Hikaru Ishii, MD, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, MD, Yu Takahashi, MD, Yusuke Inaba, MD, Mio Noma, MD, Akihiro Yoshimoto, MD, Satoshi Higuchi, MD, Hideyasu Kohshoh, MD, Seiichi Taniai, MD, Haruhisa Ishiguro, MD, Hideaki Yoshino, MD, Kenichi Sudo, MD

Coronary and/or CT angiograms were performed on 585 of 762 (94%) patients at varying intervals after CABG using the PAS-Port System proximal anastomotic device. The authors retrospectively evaluated the SVG patency at a mean follow-up interval (between CABG and the diagnostic procedures) was 319 ± 624 days. The patency rates of the SVG grafts performed with the device were 90% and 81% at 1 and 5 years, respectively, which compare very favorably with established SVG patency rates.