No-touch saphenous vein grafts in coronary artery surgery (SWEDEGRAFT): rationale and design of a multicenter, prospective, registry-based randomized clinical trial

S Ragnarsson, M Janiec, IS Modrau, M Dreifaldt… - American heart …, 2020 - Elsevier
… patency of bypass grafts, and the choice of conduit has previously been shown to impact …
The aim of the study is to assess if the NT technique of vein harvesting in CABG patients will …

[HTML][HTML] The evolving evidence base for coronary artery bypass grafting and arterial grafting in 2021: how to improve vein graft patency

D Vervoort, A Malik, SE Fremes - JTCVS techniques, 2021 - jtcvstechniques.org
… Improving saphenous vein graft patency for coronary artery bypass grafting. … NT-SVG is a
variation of SVG whereby harvesting of the vein graft occurs with a small amount of surrounding …

Saphenous vein grafts in contemporary coronary artery bypass graft surgery

E Caliskan, DR De Souza, A Boening… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
choice of grafts and limited invasiveness of the procedure 18 . … , designed to compare the
outcomes of CABG surgery using … -touch saphenous vein harvesting technique on graft patency …

No-touch versus conventional vein harvesting techniques at 12 months after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: multicenter randomized, controlled trial

M Tian, X Wang, H Sun, W Feng, Y Song, F Lu… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
coronary artery bypass grafting at 7 hospitals in a 1:1 ratio to receive no-touch technique or
conventional approach for vein harvesting… This trial was designed to include 4000 vein grafts

… -center randomized trial to compare the graft patency between the radial artery and the no-touch saphenous vein in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (GRAFT …

F Zhang, M Tian, X Wang, H Zhang, X Zhou, R Liu… - American Heart …, 2024 - Elsevier
… -term follow-ups, and provide new evidence for the second conduit choice in CABG surgery.
… For the no-touch vein harvesting technique, a longitudinal incision is made on bilateral …

Long-term survival after endoscopic vein harvest for coronary artery bypass grafting

BH Kirmani, S Power… - The Annals of The Royal …, 2020 - publishing.rcseng.ac.uk
vein harvest is the technique of choice in North America, where it constitutes 80% of conduit
harvest for coronary artery bypass grafting. … The design was a cohort study of consecutive …

[HTML][HTML] Techniques and Technologies to Improve Vein Graft Patency in Coronary Surgery

M Gemelli, M Addonizio, V Geatti, M Gallo, LK Dixon… - Medical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Vein grafts are the most used conduits in coronary artery … vessel primary coronary
intervention (PCI) are the best options, … The Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Trial investigators …

[HTML][HTML] Twenty-five years of no-touch saphenous vein harvesting for coronary artery bypass grafting: structural observations and impact on graft performance

N Samano, D Souza, BB Pinheiro, T Kopjar… - … cardiovascular surgery, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
… no-touch vein graft for coronary artery bypass surgeryRationale and design of a multicenter
randomized trial to compare the graft patency between no-touch vein harvesting technique

Rationale and design of a randomized trial evaluating an external support device for saphenous vein coronary grafts

E Bagiella, JD Puskas, AJ Moskowitz, AC Gelijns… - American heart …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the most common revascularization … grafting is
performed using standard surgical techniques. Conduit selection and harvesting methods are …

Effects of the harvesting technique and external stenting on progression of vein graft disease 2 years after coronary artery bypass

SE Sandner, TJ Donovan, S Edelstein… - … -Thoracic Surgery, 2022 - academic.oup.com
harvesting technique on saphenous vein graft (SVG) patency and disease progression after
coronary artery bypass grafting. … Suboptimal stent selection and/or implant technique, which …