Table 1: Characteristics of the included studies.
First author |
Year |
EVH |
OVH |
Follow up |
Study design |
Kopjar, et al. [15] |
2015 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Comparative |
Kim, et al. [10] |
2015 |
31 |
44 |
Six months |
Retrospective |
Chernyavskiy, et al. [11] |
2015 |
113 |
115 |
N/A |
RCT |
Moeinipour, et al. |
2016 |
87 |
86 |
Six weeks |
Retrospective |
2017 |
200 |
100 |
48 months |
RCT |
|
Harky, et al. [17] |
2017 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
RCT |
2017 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
RCT |
|
Kodia, et al. [6] |
2018 |
7,258 |
10,873 |
2.6-years |
Retrospective |
Zenati, et al. [7] |
2019 |
576 |
574 |
2.78-years |
RCT |
Li,et al. [14] |
2019 |
13357 |
14554 |
Five-years |
RCT |
Mahmood, et al. |
2019 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Abbreviations: EVH: Endoscopic venous harvesting; OVH: Open venous harvesting; RCT: Randomized controlled trial, NRCT: Non-randomized controlled trial; N/A: Not available.