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NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medicine: heart surgery expertise

Name: NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medicine: heart surgery expertise
Creator: Yevhenii Kozlov

New York, United States · Bypass graft selection with ten-year randomized evidence

Research by Yevhenii Kozlov · Co-Founder of BookimedUpdated 8 October 2026Sources linked throughout

At a glance

Weill Cornell’s Mario Gaudino explicitly practises multiple arterial CABG, including radial and bilateral internal mammary grafts. His research helps explain the long-term implications of conduit choice independently of a robotic or conventional incision.

Specific graft expertise

The official profile names radial arteries and both internal mammary arteries among his clinical interests.

Sources: Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD

1,036 randomized patients

A pooled analysis found fewer deaths, heart attacks or repeat procedures with radial-artery than saphenous-vein grafts at median ten-year follow-up.

Sources: Association of Radial Artery Graft vs Saphenous Vein Graft With Long-term Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Research continues

His institutional profile identifies leadership of ROMA and ROMA:Women trials.

Sources: Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD

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Clinical benefits and limitations

Potential advantages

Specific arterial-graft expertise is paired with randomized long-term evidence on radial artery versus vein conduits.
Sources: Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD · Association of Radial Artery Graft vs Saphenous Vein Graft With Long-term Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Trade-offs and limits

The randomized synthesis pooled five countries and studied radial artery versus vein, not every arterial-grafting strategy. It is not a Weill Cornell case series or a comparison of surgical incisions.
Sources: Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD · Association of Radial Artery Graft vs Saphenous Vein Graft With Long-term Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Specialists and their clinical work

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cardiac surgeon

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Mario Gaudino’s Weill Cornell practice explicitly includes radial-artery and bilateral internal mammary-artery grafting. His research addresses what a bypass graft is made from, independently of the chest incision.

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Sources: Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD · Association of Radial Artery Graft vs Saphenous Vein Graft With Long-term Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

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Procedure-specific research

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Randomized data on radial artery versus vein grafts

Gaudino led a patient-level analysis of 1,036 participants from randomized trials. At median ten-year follow-up, radial-artery grafting was associated with fewer events in the composite of death, myocardial infarction or repeat revascularization than saphenous-vein grafting.

How to interpret this: Pooled trials from five countries, not his own surgical cohort. The comparison concerns one conduit choice and does not establish superiority of all multiple-arterial strategies or robotic access.

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