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A 57-year-old male with a history of coronary artery bypass graft surgery and peritoneal dialysis presented with a fully calcified saphenous vein graft that remained patent with good flow.
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This case illustrates extensive, diffuse calcification of a saphenous vein graft that remained patent with good flow, likely exacerbated by end-stage renal disease and peritoneal dialysis.
Patent calcified SVG in peritoneal dialysis patient; leaves open mechanisms of maintained flow and graft durability.
A 57-year-old male visited our clinic with chief complaint of exertional chest pain. He had been on anti-hypertensive medication for 15 years. In 1999, he went through coronary artery bypass graft surgery for myocardial infarction, using an aorto-left anterior descending artery (LAD) bypass with the left internal mammary artery, and aorto-right coronary artery (RCA) bypass with saphenous vein. From 2005, he received peritoneal dialysis due to hypertensive end stage renal disease.
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Kim et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Saphenous vein graft calcification (n=1). Percutaneous coronary intervention was evaluated. A 57-year-old male with a history of coronary artery bypass graft surgery and peritoneal dialysis presented with a fully calcified saphenous vein graft that remained patent with good flow.
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