No-Touch vs Conventional Vein Grafts in Coronary Surgery

In this 7-year follow-up of the SWEDEGRAFT randomized clinical trial, no-touch saphenous vein harvesting was not shown to significantly reduce the composite of death from any cause, myocardial infarction, or repeat revascularization through 7 years of follow-up. Taken together with the previously reported excess of leg wound complications, these findings do not establish a net clinical benefit of routine no-touch harvesting.

Corresponding Author: Ulrik Sartipy, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden (ulrik.sartipy@ki.se).

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