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Saphenous Vein Harvesting
…This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Ahmed Ghazy, Head of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, about robotic cardiac surgery adoption and training. Dr. Ghazy...
This case presents an exceptionally rare and previously unreported combination of intrinsic carotid stenosis and chronic external compression due to a retained ballistic injury. A retained stray bullet injury from...
The PROCTOR trial randomized 220 post-coronary artery bypass grafting patients with saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure to native vessel percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (n=108) or SVG PCI (n=112). At one-year,...
This meta-analysis of eight randomized clinical trials (RCT) compared no-touch (NT) vs conventional (CON) saphenous vein (SV) harvesting in coronary bypass surgery. At a 3.7-year follow-up, NT-SV harvesting showed significantly...
The authors conducted the NEWTON-CABG CardioLink-5 trial to assess whether intensive lowering of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering with evolocumab reduces saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure after coronary artery bypass...
