The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 88, 304-306, Copyright © 1984 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
No effect of saphenous intimal thickness on patency of aorta-coronary bypass grafts
K Langes, R Korfer, W Bircks and W Hort
Forty-two of 261 aorta-coronary saphenous vein bypass grafts had closed by
8 +/- 7 months postoperatively. The average preoperative intimal thickness
of the nonpatent bypass grafts (158 +/- 132 microns) was nearly identical
to that of the patent grafts (160 +/- 133 microns).