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Clinical Effect of No-touch Harvesting Technique in OPCABG

The Clinical Effect of No-touch Vein Harvesting Technique in Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03729531
Enrollment
200
Registered
2018-11-02
Start date
2018-12-21
Completion date
2021-07-01
Last updated
2020-07-08

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Conditions

Coronary Artery Disease, Graft Failure

Keywords

Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, Vein Graft Failure, Endothelial dysfunction

Brief summary

This study aims to investigate the clinical effect of the new saphenous vein harvesting technique No-touch in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting(OPCABG), comparing to the conventional technique. Adopting CTA to evaluate the 3 months patency of the graft, we will compare veins harvested using No-touch technique to saphenous veins using conventional open technique.

Detailed description

Coronary artery disease(CAD) is a widespread health issue around the world. It is proven that atherosclerosis is a inflammatory disease, and endothelial dysfunction is one of the key factors that initiates the inflammatory response. Accumulating studies indicate that endothelial homeostasis plays a primordial role in the development of atherosclerosis. Coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG) is the standard treatment of three-vessel or left main coronary artery disease, and its long-term benefits is apparent. Saphenous vein is the most common graft in CABG, however, the long-term patency is only about 50% in one year, as a result, it is urgent to discover a solution to improve the long term potency of vein grafts. Conventional harvesting technique dissects the perivascular tissue and inject saline to check leakage, which causes damages to the endothelium of the vein, initiating inflammatory response. No-touch technique is a atraumatic, non-distended harvesting technique. According to the criteria, we will randomize the patients into two groups, the conventional and No-touch group, the vein will be used in sequential anastomosis, by comparing the 3 months patency rate assessed by CTA, we aim to compare the clinical outcomes of the two different vein harvesting techniques.

Interventions

PROCEDUREConventional vein harvesting technique

Long incision will be used to expose the vein, the perivascular tissue will be dissected carefully by scissors, to check for leakage, the vein will be distended by injecting saline.

The vein will be harvested by low-frequency electrotome, about 5mm surrounding tissue will be preserved with the vein, distention should be avoided, the vein will not be cut off until being anastomosed.

Sponsors

Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals
CollaboratorOTHER_GOV
Beijing Anzhen Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* patients from northern China * first time isolated off-pump coronary artery bypass graft * echocardiogram show that ejection fraction is over 35% * the diameter of saphenous vein ≥ 2mm * the vein graft will be used in sequential anastomosis, and the anastomosis sites ≥2 * be able to sign informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

* patients who need to undergo urgent surgery * Severe renal insufficiency(creatinine \>200 umol/L) * allergic to radiocontrast agent * vein is used to isolated anastomosis * Combined with malignant tumor or other severe systemic conditions

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
short-term patency rate of vein grafts3 months after surgerythe patency of vein grafts will be assessed by CTA, the doctors of CT department will be masked, at least 2 doctors will provide their conclusions.when the results is controversial, the third doctor will be asked to review the image and provide another conclusion, the patency will be assessed according all results.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
long-term patency rate of vein grafts12 months after surgerythe patency will be assessed by CTA the same as short-term patency
major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events(MACCE) rate3 months and 12 months after surgeryall-cause death, myocardial infarction, stroke,repeat revascularizaiton
CCS grade3 months and 12 months after surgerythe grade of angina wii be assessed according to Canadian Cardiovascular Society standard
the healing of the lower leg incision3 months and 12 months after surgerythe healing of the incision will be divided into primary healing, e.g. less tissue defects, neat wound edges, no infection, adhesion or suture to create a tight wound; delayed healing, which means the wound does not closed within 1 month; infection, the wound does not close after 3 months, or necrotic tissues are seen in the incision.

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactJu-bing Zheng, M.D.
zhengjubing@hotmail.com86-13683113119
Backup ContactKui Zhang, M.D.
86-15001178663

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 7, 2026