VENEK: Healing in Different Vein Harvesting Methods During Aortocoronary Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG)

Phase 4TerminatedNCT00180388

Boston Scientific Corporation300 enrolled

Overview

The VENEK trial is a randomized, prospective trial to compare economic parameters, quality of life and wound healing after endoscopic vein harvesting versus open vein harvesting.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

300

Conditions

Coronary Artery Disease

Interventions

endoscopic vein harvestingPROCEDURE

open vein harvestingPROCEDURE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age over 60 years * Admission at Herzzentrum Dresden - Herzchirurgie for bypass-operation (OP) with planned veinectomy * Eligibility for different modes of planned intervention according to study protocol * Signed patient informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Varicose crural veins * Emergency patients * Combined operational procedures * Preoperative complete immobilization

Locations (2)

Klinik Bad Gottleuba

Bad Gottleuba, Germany

TU Dresden, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Klinik für Kardiochirurgie

Dresden, Germany

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Evaluation of the economic differences between methods of treatment

Follow-up until wound healing

Time frame: up to 2 months

Secondary Outcomes

Evaluation of the outcome in quality of life (questions according to the protocol) and rate of disorders in wound healing

Follow-up until wound healing

Time frame: up to 2 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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