Factors influencing graft potency in patients who underwent CABG for treatment of CAD.

OBJECTIVES To identify factors that influence graft disease and native coronary arteries progression disease and prognostic implication of this process. BACKGROUND Unsolved problem in CABG patients is progression of the disease in bypass grafts and native coronary arteries. METHODS Data from 102 patients with CABG, who underwent re-coronarography, were analyzed: - Pre and post-operative variables: risk factors, clinical status, functional capacity, left ventricular parameters and angiographic status (before and after CABG). Proportional hazard regression model, was used, p