No-Touch Saphenous Venous Harvesting TechniQue versUs Radial artEry in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in womEN: The QUEEN Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
The use of a graft from the left internal thoracic artery to the left anterior descending artery has become the gold standard for the indication of coronary artery bypass grafting. However, choosing a graft for the second-best coronary artery, focusing on long-term patency, is still a challenge. The saphenous vein using the no-touch technique is an alternative to a radial artery graft, but there is little evidence, especially in women. This randomized clinical study aims to compare the patency of these grafts in the second-best coronary artery in women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.
• Women aged 18 years or older and younger than 75 years, undergoing isolated and primary myocardial revascularization surgery, with triarterial coronary artery disease (three vessels involved) in vessels subject to surgical revascularization and left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 35%. The target coronary vessels of the study will be those in the territory of the left circumflex artery and the right coronary artery, which must have at least 1.5 mm in diameter, and with proximal obstructive lesions of at least 70%.