Clinical trialNCT00054847CompletedInterventional

Radial Artery Versus Saphenous Vein Grafts in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

SponsorUS Department of Veterans AffairsEnrollment733Cardiovascular DiseaseCoronary Artery Disease

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Summary

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VA patients with coronary artery disease and who have agreed to undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery would be randomized to receive either radial artery or saphenous vein to the study vessel. The primary outcome variable is graft patency at one year.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Steven Goldman, MD
Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
Study Chair
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Sites

11 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Va Medical Center, Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Southern Arizona Va Health Care System
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Central Arkansas Vhs Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Ctr, Little Rock
No. Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Edward Hines, Jr. Va Hospital
Hines, Illinois, United States
Southeast Veterans Healthcare System, New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Va Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Campus
Brockton, Massachusetts, United States
Va Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Va Medical Center, Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
New Mexico Va Health Care System, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Michael E. Debakey Va Medical Center (152)
Houston, Texas, United States
Hunter Holmes Mcguire Va Medical Center
Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 28 Feb 2003
Primary completion: 28 Feb 2009
Completion: 28 Feb 2010
Last update posted: 5 May 2014
Registered enrollment: 733
Registry id: NCT00054847

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.