Afilalo and colleagues have presented an updated meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized trials of off-pump vs. on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. Their two major findings are that while there was a reduction in mortality, myocardial infarction, and stroke in the off-pump group, this only reached significance for the latter, and that the effect of off-pump CABG was ...

AIMS To assess EuroSCORE performance in predicting in-hospital mortality in on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB). METHODS AND RESULTS Additive and logistic EuroSCORE were computed for consecutive patients undergoing CABG (n = 3440, 75%) or OPCAB (n = 1140, 25%) at our hospital from 1999 to September 2007. The areas under the recei...

OBJECTIVES Left main disease (LMD), combined with carotid artery stenosis (CAS), constitutes a high-risk patient population. Priority is often given to coronary revascularization, due to the severity of the angina. However, the choice of revascularization strategy [off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) vs coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)] remains elusive. METHODS A total of 1340 patie...

Methods Of 2083 patients who underwent isolated off-pump CABG between 1999 and 2012, 91 patients who underwent offpump CABG concomitant with non-cardiovascular surgery (group 1) were compared with 1991 patients who underwent isolated off-pump CABG (group 2). In group 1, there were 49 malignancies and 42 benigns. Non-cardiovascular surgery included 34 thoracic surgeries (11 bullectomy, 11 pulmon...

Background: The optimal coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) technique is still evolving. This study aimed to evaluate the early results of total arterial off-pump using bilateral internal mammary arteries.
 Methods: was performed from May 2018 2019 at a cardiac surgery center in India. It included 200 patients with disease who had CABG arteries. follow-ups for three months. There were 5...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate cognitive function, as measured by serial neuropsychological testing, and cerebral perfusion, as measured by brain SPECT scanning in patients with coronary artery diseases (CAD) following off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Besides, the relationship between cerebral blood flow, cognitive functions, surgery parameters, and ca...

BACKGROUND Redo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) represents an high-risk surgical procedure, because of an increased incidence of perioperative death, myocardial infarction and stroke. Theoretically, the avoidance of cardiopulmonary bypass may reduce surgical traumatism and ameliorate early results. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 1995 to May 2001, we performed 123 redo CABGs, of whi...

BACKGROUND Although off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is now used worldwide for coronary revascularization, the pre- and intraoperative risk factors for myocardial injury associated with the surgical procedure remain to be elucidated. We performed a multivariate analysis to investigate factors that contribute to myocardial injury during off-pump CABG. METHODS The study populatio...