LONDON, England—The “no-touch” harvesting technique for patients undergoing CABG surgery using a saphenous vein graft does not lower the risk of graft failure but is associated with a significantly ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the Committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...

CHICAGO, IL—For patients undergoing CABG with vein grafts, endoscopic harvesting in expert hands is on par with traditional open-harvesting methods in terms of subsequent major adverse cardiac events, ...

Use of a radial artery (located within the forearm, wrist and hand) graft compared with a saphenous vein (from the leg) graft for coronary artery bypass grafting did not result in improved ...

London, United Kingdom – 31 August 2024: No-touch graft harvesting did not appear to be beneficial compared with the conventional technique for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), according to ...

Endoscopic harvesting of saphenous veins for use in CABG surgery has become standard practice worldwide. This strategy reduces postoperative infection and hospital stay, and increases patients' ...

April 5, 2011 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — The radial artery has outperformed the saphenous vein as a conduit for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in a five-year follow-up of patients with ...

A novel, stent-shaped device that provides external buttressing to saphenous vein grafts placed during coronary artery bypass surgery was safe, but failed to improve 12-month patency of vein grafts, ...

No-touch graft harvesting did not appear to be beneficial compared with the conventional technique for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 19 Starion Instruments, a leadingsurgical device company, today announced that a study presented at the 2008Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Minimally ...

One of the following OPCS-4 codes is used to classify the coronary artery bypass grafting with a saphenous vein graft, depending on the number of arteries replaced: K40.1 Saphenous vein graft ...