{"id":10466,"date":"2026-08-13T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:23:17","slug":"elana-sutureless-cabg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/elana-sutureless-cabg\/","title":{"rendered":"ELANA \u2013 Sutureless CABG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELANA \u2013 Sutureless CABG<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2060 \u2060Laser-assisted, sutureless LITA\u2013LAD anastomosis.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2060 \u2060Performed on a beating heart (off-pump) while maintaining coronary blood flow.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2060 \u2060Avoids technically demanding hand-sewn distal anastomosis, facilitating minimally invasive and robotic CABG, particularly where cardiac motion and limited working space make suturing challenging.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2060 \u2060Early results: 92.5% overall LIMA\u2013LAD patency at 6 months, improving to 97.5% with the latest-generation laser catheter; longer-term data are needed.<\/p>\n<p>Source: News-Medical, Jul 17, 2026; SAFE-CAB II trial, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20260717\/A-breakthrough-in-coronary-bypass-surgery-AMT-Medicale28099s-SAFE-CAB-results-published-in-The-Journal-of-Thoracic-and-Cardiovascular-Surgery.aspx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELANA \u2013 Sutureless CABG \u2022\u2060 \u2060Laser-assisted, sutureless LITA\u2013LAD anastomosis. \u2022\u2060 \u2060Performed on a beating heart (off-pump) while maintaining coronary blood flow. \u2022\u2060 \u2060Avoids technically demanding hand-sewn distal anastomosis, facilitating minimally invasive and robotic CABG, particularly where cardiac motion and limited working space make suturing challenging. \u2022\u2060 \u2060Early results: 92.5% overall LIMA\u2013LAD patency at 6 months, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10467,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions\/10467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}