Your arteries, veins, and capillaries form a vital roadmap for your blood’s circulation. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can keep this 60,000-mile system running smoothly. Sources Update History ...

So in each case, it's a selection process that has to be made tailored to the patient's specific characteristics, whether we use veins, arteries, and how much of each we use.

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is one of the most common operations performed, with a database indicating that in the United States, 163,048 patients had CABG surgery in 2008.

Radial artery graft for the second most important coronary target was associated with lower 15-year all-cause mortality vs. right internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein graft for CABG ...

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