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

Krishnamoorthy, et al. [12]

2017

200

100

48 months

RCT

Harky, et al. [17]

2017

N/A

N/A

N/A

RCT

Ferdinand, et al. [3]

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.