JTCS Concomitant Website
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Blumlein, S. L.
Right arrow Articles by Flemma, R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Blumlein, S. L.
Right arrow Articles by Flemma, R.

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 72, 778-783, Copyright © 1976 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

ARTICLES

Preoperative risk factors and aorta-coronary bypass graft patency

SL Blumlein, AJ Anderson, JJ Barboriak, AA Rimm, J Walker and R Flemma

The relationship between graft patency and the presence of presurgical prognostic factors was studied in 636 patients who have undergone aorta- coronary bypass operation. We have found a positive correlation between vein graft patency and both coronary artery constriction score (p less than 0.01) and diastolic blood pressure (p less than 0.05). In patients studied up to one year after surgery, high graft patency was associated with both higher diastolic pressures (p less than 0.03) and higher cholesterol levels (p less than 0.001). However, high cholesterol levels also were associated with coronary arterial obstruction. In patients studied more than a year after operation, high constriction scores before the operation were associated with improved graft patency (p less than 0.03). Our findings indicate that short-term prognosis of the grafts is related mainly to hemodynamic variables.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 HeartHome page
J S Skinner, M Farrer, C J Albers, H A W Neil, and P C Adams
High apolipoprotein AI concentrations are associated with lower mortality and myocardial infarction five years after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Heart, May 1, 1999; 81(5): 488 - 494.
[Abstract] [Full Text]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 1976 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery.