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Superior Outcomes of Dual-Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Are Maintained in the Veterans Health Administration.
J Surg Res
September 2024
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address:
Introduction: Controversy surrounds the long-term clinical benefit of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using dual arterial grafts (DAGs) compared to single arterial grafts (SAGs). We investigated outcomes of DAG, using single internal thoracic artery and radial artery (DAG-RA) or bilateral internal thoracic artery grafts (DAG-BITA), compared to SAG, using the left internal thoracic artery and saphenous vein grafts, in the U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerformance of left internal thoracic artery-left anterior descending artery anastomosis by residents versus attendings and coronary artery bypass grafting outcomes.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
May 2024
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Objectives: Performance of a technically sound left internal thoracic artery to left anterior descending artery (LITA-LAD) anastomosis during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is critically important. We used prospectively collected data from the multicentre, randomized REGROUP (Randomized Endograft Vein Perspective) trial to investigate CABG outcomes based on whether a resident or an attending surgeon performed the LITA-LAD anastomosis.
Methods: This was a post hoc subanalysis of the REGROUP trial, which randomized veterans undergoing isolated on-pump CABG to endoscopic versus open vein harvest from 2014 through 2017.
Anatomical SYNTAX score and major adverse cardiac events following CABG in the REGROUP trial.
J Cardiol
May 2024
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Randomized Trial of Endoscopic or Open Vein-Graft Harvesting for Coronary-Artery Bypass.
N Engl J Med
January 2019
From the Divisions of Cardiac Surgery (M.A.Z., J.A.Q., M.H.) and Cardiology (D.L.B., J.M.G.), Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, the Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (M.A.Z., J.A.Q., M.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School (D.L.B.), and Massachusetts General Hospital (J.B.) - all in Boston; the Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (F.G.B.); the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh (F.G.B.); the Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Perry Point, MD (E.M.S., K.B., E.D.); Minneapolis VA Medical Center and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (R.F.K.); San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (E.E.T.); Zablocki VA Medical Center and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (G.H.A.); VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System, Denver (B.H.); the Cooperative Studies Program Pharmacy Coordinating Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, Albuquerque, NM (A.S.); and the Cooperative Studies Program Central Office, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (G.D.H.).
Background: The saphenous-vein graft is the most common conduit for coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG). The influence of the vein-graft harvesting technique on long-term clinical outcomes has not been well characterized.
Methods: We randomly assigned patients undergoing CABG at 16 Veterans Affairs cardiac surgery centers to either open or endoscopic vein-graft harvesting.