Radial artery harvesting in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery—Endoscopic or open method? A meta-analysis

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 7; p. e0236499
• Main Authors: Huang, Tzu-Yen, Huang, Ting-Shuo, Cheng, Yu-Ting, Wang, Yao-Chang, Chen, Tzu-Ping, Yin, Shun-Ying, Yeh, Chi-Hsiao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 24.07.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Bias; Biology and Life Sciences; Cardiovascular disease; Clinical trials; Complications; Confidence intervals; Coronary artery; Coronary artery bypass; Coronary vessels; Endoscopes; Endoscopy; Forearm; Grafting; Heart attacks; Heart surgery; Hospitals; Infections; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Meta-analysis; Methods; Mortality; Neurological complications; Patients; Physical Sciences; Quality; Randomization; Research and Analysis Methods; Software; Statistical analysis; Studies; Supervision; Surgeons; Surgery; Survival; Survival analysis; Wound infection; China; Taiwan

We analyzed the clinical outcomes of open radial artery harvesting (OAH) and endoscopic radial artery harvesting (EAH) undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). We designed this meta-analysis conducted using Pubmed, Medline, the Cochrane Library, and EMBASE. Articles with comparisons of OAH...