SUPERIORSVG 2010.
Trial name or title | Improving the results of heart bypass surgery using new approaches to surgery and medication (SUPERIORSVG) |
Methods | RCT |
Participants | Adults having coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) using saphenous vein graft (SVG) |
Interventions | Each for 12 months: Arm 1: fish oil supplements (2 × 1 g/d Ocean Nutrition capsules: 55% fish oils EPA:DHA 33%:22%) and SVG conventionally harvested Arm 2: placebo and SVG conventionally harvested Arm 3: fish oil supplements (2 × 1 g/d Ocean Nutrition capsules: 55% fish oils EPA:DHA 33%:22%) and SVG no‐touch harvest Arm 4: placebo and SVG no‐touch harvest |
Outcomes | Primary: proportion of grafts occluded Secondary: significant stenosis, adverse SVG harvesting events, composite outcome of all‐cause mortality, non‐fatal MI and repeat revascularisation |
Starting date | Registered on trials registry: 12 January 2010 Study start date: July 2011 Estimated study completion date: December 2016 |
Contact information | Stephen Fremes, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (PI) |
Notes | NCT01047449 |