No-touch versus conventional vein in coronary artery bypass grafting: three year follow-up of multicentre randomised PATENCY trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the three year outcomes of the no-touch vein harvesting technique in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery compared with the conventional approach.

Design

Three year extended follow-up of the randomised PATENCY (graft patency between the no-touch vein harvesting technique and conventional approach in coronary artery bypass graft surgery) trial.

Setting

Seven cardiac surgery centres in China; enrolment between April 2017 and June 2019.

Participants

2655 participants aged 18 and older undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.

Interventions

Patients were randomly assigned 1:1 to the no-touch vein harvesting technique group or the conventional approach group during surgery and followed up.

Main outcome measures

SUBMITTER: Tian M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12042279 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature