What is Endoscopic Vein Harvesting?
Endoscopic Vein Harvesting is anew, proven treatment for individuals who undergo coronary bypass surgery. When blockages occur in the heart’s arteries, surgeons must remove the diseased areas and repair them with arteries or veins that are harvested from other areas of the patient’s body. Surgeons use the harvested arteries to replace the major arteries, such as the “left anterior descending artery,” that feed a large territory of the heart. Harvested veins are used as the bypass grafts to replace branches of these major arteries.
