Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Study

Launched by NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE (NHLBI) · Oct 27, 1999

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BACKGROUND:

A large number of studies have reported that following CABG, the vessels proximal to the grafts demonstrate accelerated atherosclerosis and the grafts themselves may show progressive obstruction due to thrombosis, fibrosis, and graft atheroma. Pathological and clinical studies have documented that graft obstruction during the perioperative period and the first year is usually due to technical problems at surgery or thrombosis and occurs in about 15 to 20 percent of saphenous vein grafts. Antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin have been shown to reduce these early graft occlusions b...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Men and women between 1 and 11 years post-CABG. Patients had two completely independent saphenous vein grafts that were patent. Patients had an LDL-cholesterol between 130 and 175 with plasma triglycerides below 300 mg/dl.

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