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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Surg. 2009 Oct 17;51(3):736–746. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.07.102

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Modes of vein graft failure. While the majority of intimal hyperplasia in vein grafts is focal, a substantial minority (12%) is diffuse. Panel A represents a 6 month old vein graft in a 67 year old white man that developed a mid graft stenosis (arrow) that was successfully treated with a vein patch angioplasty. Panel B represents a 4 month old vein graft in a 77 year Black women undergoing angiography for contralateral limb ischemia. Three months later, she developed diffuse intimal hyperplasia which progressed to vein graft occlusion.