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2305999

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-3-16
pubmed:abstractText
Seven patients with totally occluded coronary artery bypass vein grafts underwent percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. All patients had either acute or recent occlusion of the graft itself. In 2 patients the proximal and in 3 the distal anastomosis were also narrowed. The vein graft was successfully dilated in all the patients. Six patients also received direct intragraft thrombolytic therapy during the procedure. Five uncomplicated patients improved clinically. One patient was studied routinely as part of a myocardial infarction-streptokinase protocol and had no symptoms. This patient had a no-reflow phenomenon. One patient did not receive intragraft thrombolytic therapy and the procedure was complicated by embolization with myocardial infarction and a cerebral embolus. In 2 patients, a routine angiogram was performed two to six months after graft dilatation and in both the grafts were patent. Another patient, initially successfully dilated, had recurrent angina and restenosis of the proximal anastomosis ten months after angioplasty; this was successfully redilated. Angioplasty of acutely or recently totally occluded coronary vein grafts is feasible and improves angina when present. Additional thrombolytic therapy prevents embolization.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0003-3197
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
41
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
44-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Percutaneous angioplasty of totally occluded coronary vein bypass grafts: case histories.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports