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RecruitingNCT05757947Updated Feb 8, 2024

Study of the No-touch Saphenous Vein Graft

An interventional study of Сoronary bypass surgery according to the I-graft method and Сoronary bypass surgery by the method of free conduit in Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Stenosis and Graft Failure, sponsored by Meshalkin Research Institute of Pathology of Circulation. Recruiting at 1 site in Russian Federation. Open to participants aged 25 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-02-08.

Sponsored by Meshalkin Research Institute of Pathology of Circulation · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Apr 2025, 1 year 7 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Dec 2022; still recruiting 3 years 10 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
106
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
25 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Authors hypothesize that "no-touch" saphenous vein as I graft is superior over conventional "no-touch" saphenous vein as free graft in the incidence of graft patency.

Read the detailed description

A multicenter single blind prospective randomized superiority study is conducted. Our hypothesis is that there is difference in the incidence of "no-touch" saphenous vein graft patency using it as the conventional free graft (group C) and I graft (group I) for myocardial revascularization more than 28%. If there is truly difference between groups, then total 106 patients for both groups are required to be 90% sure that the upper limit of a one-sided 95% confidence interval would reveal a difference in favour of the "no-touch" saphenous vein I graft of 28%. The blinding process is applied to a patient, who is informed about received harvesting method of saphenous vein, but don't know the type of the graft cofiguration. The study was approved by Institutional Review Board. Depending on a type of the procedure, the patients are divided into two groups: conventional free graft (group C) 53 patients and I graft (group I) 53 patients. Randomization is conducted befor operation by using accidental sampling.

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Conditions studied

  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Coronary Artery Stenosis
  • Graft Failure
  • Cardiac Ischemia
  • Surgery

Keywords

  • no-touch saphenous vein graft; CABG
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In context

Coronary Artery Disease

4,857 studies on the registry are indexed under Coronary Artery Disease; 890 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 106 is below the median of 124 across 3,006 interventional studies indexed under Coronary Artery Disease.

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Lead sponsor

Meshalkin Research Institute of Pathology of Circulation is the lead sponsor of 119 studies on the registry; 9 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
25 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with coronary artery disease requiring three-vessel myocardial revascularization
  • Patient consent to the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • The diameter of the target arteries for conduits of the internal mammary arteries is less than 1 mm
  • Hemodynamically significant atherosclerosis of the subclavian arteries in the first segment
  • Stenosis of the right coronary artery less than 90%
  • Concomitant pathology requiring additional simultaneous surgical correction
  • Lack of IMA
  • with \<60%
  • >35
  • Prior heart surgery
  • Oncological diseases with a of less than 5 years
  • ACS
  • CKD stage 4 and higher
  • The diameter of the SVG is less than 2 mm or its varicose expansion is more than 6 mm
  • CLTI IIb and more
  • Atherosclerosis of the brachiocephalic artery more than 50%
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(4)

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COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

FEV1

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BMI (body mass index)

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Life expectancy

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
106 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    "no-touch" saphenous vein as I-graft

    Coronary bypass surgery according to the I-graft method. Proximal anastomosis to RIMA.

    Procedure: Сoronary bypass surgery according to the I-graft method

  • Active comparator
    "no-touch" saphenous vein as conventional free graft

    Coronary artery bypass grafting using the free conduit technique. Proximal anastomosis to aorta.

    Procedure: Сoronary bypass surgery by the method of free conduit

Interventions

  • ProcedureСoronary bypass surgery according to the I-graft method

    Revascularization of the right coronary artery basin will be performed using "no-touch" SVG and the formation of an anastomosis of the stump of the right internal mammary artery and end-to-end saphenous vein graft.

  • ProcedureСoronary bypass surgery by the method of free conduit

    Revascularization of the right coronary artery basin will be performed using "no-touch" SVG and anastomosis of the saphenous vein graft to aorta.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Patency of "no-touch" saphenous vein graft

    Assessment of the patency of coronary shunts

    Time frame: 12 months after surgery

Secondary outcomes

  1. Recurrence of angina pectoris

    Estimated percentage of participants with symptomatic angina at 6 and 12 months after surgery

    Time frame: 6 and 12 months after after surgery

  2. MACE

    Estimated percentage of participants with major adverse cardiac events at 6 and 12 months post-surgery

    Time frame: 6 and 12 months after after surgery

  3. Complications of the conduit fence site

    Estimated percentage of participants with wound complications, development of wound infection, postoperative neurological complications at the sampling site at 6 and 12 months after surgery

    Time frame: 6 and 12 months after after surgery

  4. Survival rate

    Estimated percentage of participants who died at 6 and 12 months after surgery

    Time frame: 6 and 12 months after after surgery

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • NMCR named after academician E.N. Meshalkin of the Ministry of Health of rhe Russian
    Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Region 630055, Russian Federation
    Recruiting
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Dec 2022 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Apr 2025, 27 months after the start.

Of 753 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Coronary Artery Disease, half reached primary completion within 33 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 53. This study's planned 27 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 930 studies reached it within 30 months; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 50.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Feb 24, 2023
First posted
Mar 7, 2023
StartActual
Dec 22, 2022
Primary completionEst.
Apr 1, 2025
CompletionEst.
Dec 22, 2025
Last update
Feb 8, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 8, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05757947
Responsible party
Dmitry Khvan (candidate of medical sciences, senior researcher, сardiovascular surgeon of the NMRC named after academician E.N. Meshalkin of the Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Meshalkin Research Institute of Pathology of Circulation) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 7, 2023
Start date
Dec 22, 2022
Primary completion
Apr 1, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 22, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 8, 2024

Study contacts

Dmitry Khvan, Ph.D.
Contact
dmhvan@mail.ru
+79069090505
Dmitry Khvan, Ph.D.
principal investigator · NMCR named after academician E.N. Meshalkin of the Ministry of Health of rhe Russian

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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