Cheung-Flynn, Joyce
Song, Jun
Voskresensky, Igor
Wise, Eric S.
Liu, Yapu
Xiong, Yanhua
Eagle, Susan S.
Brophy, Colleen M.
Flynn, C. Robb
Article History
Received: 2 March 2017
Accepted: 2 October 2017
First Online: 27 October 2017
Competing Interests
: Overall the work in the field of injury to saphenous vein grafts during harvest has led to a vein harvest kit in which two of the authors are inventors (J.C., C.B.) and one is a founder (C.B.) of a company (Vasoprep) that has developed a vein harvest kit to mitigate some of the injury that occurs during vein harvest. Neither of these authors has any active role in Vasoprep. While this manuscript is in the general field of minimizing injury during harvest, the information in this manuscript will not impact the development or commercialization of the Vasoprep kit. Studies described in this study were carried out under strict adherence to the guidelines and policy of the funding agencies reported and were not funded by Vasoprep.