Randomized Trial of Endoscopic or Open Vein-Graft Harvesting for Coronary-Artery Bypass.
Marco A ZenatiDeepak L BhattFaisal G BakaeenEileen M StockKousick BiswasJ Michael GazianoRosemary F KellyElaine E TsengJerene BitondoJacquelyn A QuinG Hossein AlmassiMiguel HaimeBrack HattlerEllen DeMattAlexandra ScrymgeourGrant D Huangnull nullPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2018)
Among patients undergoing CABG, we did not find a significant difference between open vein-graft harvesting and endoscopic vein-graft harvesting in the risk of major adverse cardiac events. (Funded by the Cooperative Studies Program, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs; REGROUP ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01850082 .).