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2025-12-24 @ 11:35 PM
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2025-12-24 @ 11:35 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00187356
Brief Summary:
Bypass surgery is often required to treat severe coronary heart disease. Either arteries or veins can be used as bypass grafts. We wish to compare the long-term durability of the saphenous vein from the leg to that of the radial artery from the fore-arm when used as bypass grafts. We are examining how many of these grafts are still functioning beyond 5 years after bypass surgery by performing a coronary angiogram. After 1-year, we found that radial arteries were more likely to be functioning than saphenous veins. We hypothesize that radial arteries will continue to be superior beyond 5 years.
Detailed Description:
The multi-centre Radial Artery Patency Study, (RAPS) is a series of longitudinal graft patency studies designed to compare the long-term patency of the radial artery to the saphenous vein. Between 1996 and 2001, 561 patients were intraoperatively randomized to undergo surgery according to one of two strategies: radial-artery grafting to the circumflex territory and saphenous-vein grafting to the right coronary artery or radial-artery grafting to the right coronary artery and saphenous-vein grafting to the circumflex territory. The first study compared the 8-12 month angiographic patency of the radial artery with that of the saphenous vein as a conduit for coronary artery bypass and found that radial arteries were superior. The primary objective of this current study is to determine the beyond 5-year angiographic patency of the radial artery compared with a saphenous vein coronary bypass graft.
HYPOTHESES
1. The angiographic patency of radial artery grafts studied beyond 5 years following surgery exceeds that of saphenous vein grafts.
2. Radial artery conduits studied beyond 5 years postoperatively have less graft disease than saphenous veins.
SAMPLE SIZE We expect to study 350 patients, which will allow us to test for a 35% risk reduction from 23% occlusion rate in saphenous veins to 15% in radial arteries, assuming a 5% within-patient correlation, with 80% power for a 2-tailed alpha of 0.05.
Study:
NCT00187356
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00187356