Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access

Lens assisted bridging technique of saphenous vein harvesting: A new technique in saphenous vein harvesting

21^st International Conference on Clinical and Experimental Cardiology

November 06-07, 2017 | Las Vegas, USA

Ali Ali Mohamed Elbassioni

Suez Canal University, Egypt

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Clin Exp Cardiolog

Abstract :

Ischemic heart disease is a common cause of death, which encourage is to find a definitive treatment for this disease. One of them is coronary artery bypass grafting. Still most commonly used graft is saphenous vein which harvested by different techniques. Operative technique: we used lens assisted bridging technique and compared it with traditional technique. After comparing the data obtained from both techniques, we found that lens assisted bridging technique can be a good substitute for endoscopic vein harvest especially in areas with low financial resources with results better than traditional open technique