Silent Graft Occlusion After CABG Complicates Heart Care

Graft occlusion after CABG seen more often in female patients - Cardiovascular News

Syda Productions/stock.adobe.com Early bypass graft occlusion occurred significantly more frequently in female compared to male patients after isolated coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a single-centre analysis published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery has shown. Conducted by Luca Koechlin, Islam Slikhanov (both of University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland) and colleagues, the analysis should stimulate research on the underlying…

Silent Graft Occlusion After CABG Complicates Heart Care

Silent graft occlusion after coronary artery bypass grafting is detected before hospital discharge and is linked to heightened risks for rehospitalisations and reinterventions in the mid-term.