Drug-eluting stents have great impact to the coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG) in cardiac surgery. Someone even believes that it could replace the surgery procedure. However, the drug-eluting stents are not so ideally in the clinic practice. There are no significant difference between drug-eluting stents and bare metal stents in the mortality and the angina recurrence in middle-long term follow-up. The same results are in the compare with the CABG. As the challenge of the drug-eluting stents, the cardiac surgery has many aspects practice and progress in the harvest of the bypass graft. In the article, the change of the CABG conduit in the era of drug-eluting stents are reviewed.
Citation： XIAO Feng,YANG Yang. The Era of Drug-Eluting Stents--the Change of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Conduit. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2007, 14(6): 452-. doi: Copy