Five-year patency for the no-touch saphenous vein and the left internal thoracic artery in on- and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting
Mikael Arbeus 1 MD, DomingosSouza 1 PhD, HåkanGeijer 2 PhD, MatsLidén 2 PhD, BrunoPinheiro 3 MSc, LennartBodin 4 PhD, NinosSamano 5 PhD
1Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden,2Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, 3Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital do Coracao Anis Rassi, Goiania, Brazil, 4Intervention and Implementation Research, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 5Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital and Department of Surgical Sciences, Thoracic Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Funding: Funded by the Örebro County Council through the Regional Research Board and Nyckelfonden (grant # OLL-689991).
Meeting presentation: EACTS annual meeting in Vienna, Austria, 7-11 October 2017.
Disclosures: There are no financial conflicts or other conflicts of interest related to the material of the present study.
Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03447197
Corresponding author: Dr. Ninos Samano
Address: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, SE-751 85, Uppsala, Sweden.
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