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 ...

Endoscopic vessel harvesting (EVH) is a minimally invasive procedure performed right before coronary artery bypass grafting, or bypass surgery. A physicians’ assistant (PA) typically performs the ...

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' ...

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, ...

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 ...

January 6, 2011 (Hanover, New Hampshire) — New registry data show that endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH) for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is as good as if not better than open vein ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...