The no-touch saphenous vein should be considered in a risk score of vein graft failure.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Influence of Three Different Surgical Techniques on Microscopic Damage of Saphenous Vein Grafts-A Randomized Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023
   Trial
2. The Thigh Saphenous Vein Versus the Calf Saphenous Vein: Searching for the Optimal Conduit for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions · 2025
   Observational

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Reply from authors: Vein graft biology and the risk of graft occlusion.2020
• Commented on by
  Reply: The no-touch saphenous vein: Increased patency, but at what risk?2020
• Comment on
  Development of a risk score for early saphenous vein graft failure: An individual patient data meta-analysis.2020

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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