Design: VeinCore

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) is a procedure used to improve the blood flow to the heart in patients with coronary heart disease. In order to bypass a blockage, a vessel must be taken from elsewhere in the body, usually the Saphenous Vein. This procedure is known as endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH). The problem is that EVH is currently a cumbersome and complex procedure and, as a result, procedure outcomes are highly dependent on the surgeon's ability. There is a need for a simpler minimally invasive technique that will increase graft patency in EVH procedures and reduce the time it takes to perform the surgery. Therefore, JJ. NYCE Vascular has developed VeinCore. VeinCore is a mechanical device to be used during the EVH procedure preceding a CABG procedure. VeinCore allows a clinician to sever the connective tissue around the outside of a target vein in order to extract the vein for the bypass.The device is intended to simplify the vein harvesting procedure in order to lessen the learning curve amongst users, and as a result increase graft patency while decreasing the harvesting time duration.