BOSTON, MA—For patients undergoing transradial coronary procedures, a short course of rivaroxaban (Xarelto; Bayer/Janssen) reduces the rate of radial artery occlusion without significantly increasing ...

The use of radial-artery grafts for coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) may result in better postoperative outcomes than the use of saphenous-vein grafts. However, randomized, controlled trials ...

The longest postoperative follow-up thus far of radial artery grafts in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery speaks to the long-term safety of this oft-overlooked conduit ...

New long-term data from the CSP 474 trial offers a challenge to some of the conventional wisdom around graft choice in CABG surgery and may further the debate over recent guideline recommendations.

Patients undergoing heart bypass surgery lived longer and had better outcomes when surgeons used a segment of an artery from their arm, called the radial artery, instead of a vein from their leg, ...