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Table 3 Total number of patients with clinically-driven angiography during follow-up. Indications for the first angiography and the fraction of patients with failed grafts found during the procedure for the NTT and CT group

From: Long-term clinical outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting with pedicled saphenous vein grafts

 

Conventional

No-touch

Total number

225

189

Indications

 STEMI

5.8%

7.4%

 NSTEMI or unstable angina

40.9%

47.1%

 Stable angina

44.0%

39.7%

 Other

9.3%

5.8%

Graft failure

 Failed grafts

53.6%

43.2%

 No data

7.1%

3.2%

  1. STEMI indicates ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction; NSTEMI non ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction