Association between endoscopic vs open vein-graft harvesting and mortality, wound complications, and cardiovascular events in patients undergoing CABG surgery

JAMA

Volumn 308, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 475-484

  Williams, Judson B ^a,b   Peterson, Eric D ^a,b   Brennan, J Matthew ^a,b   Sedrakyan, Art ^c   Tavris, Dale ^d   Alexander, John H ^a,b   Lopes, Renato D ^a,b   Dokholyan, Rachel S ^a   Zhao, Yue ^a   O'Brien, Sean M ^a   Michler, Robert E ^e   Thourani, Vinod H ^f   Edwards, Fred H ^g   Duggirala, Hesha ^d   Gross, Thomas ^d   Marinac Dabic, Danica ^d   Smith, Peter K ^b  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VEIN GRAFT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION; VEIN;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VEINS;

EID: 84864504465     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.8363     Document Type: Article

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