Does the use of radial-artery grafts reduce adverse cardiac events and improve patency compared to saphenous-vein grafts in patients undergoing Coronary-Artery Bypass Surgery?
Radial-artery grafts provide superior long-term clinical outcomes and patency at 5 years compared to saphenous-vein grafts in patients undergoing CABG.
As compared with the use of saphenous-vein grafts, the use of radial-artery grafts for CABG resulted in a lower rate of adverse cardiac events and a higher rate of patency at 5 years of follow-up. (Funded by Weill Cornell Medicine and others.).
Gaudino et al. (Mon,) studied this question.