406 O ne of the most controversial areas of cardiac surgery has been whether off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCAB) surgery is superior to traditional on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. On-pump CABG surgery has been an effective, safe, and time-proven technique and is the gold standard with which all other surgical revascular-ization methods have been compared. However,...

Abstract: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a multifactorial problem. Although hyperlipidemia (HLP), diabetes (DM), and hypertension (HTN) are known as the familial and cardiac risk factors, CABG is rare in the several members of a family. We reported the six members of a family who presented with MI and/or advanced angina pectoris during the 6 years. CABG(Coronary artery bypass graft) considere...

Introduction: The most common cardiac disease is coronary artery disease (CAD) in the world. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is implemented through two standard surgical techniques, namely off-pump beating-heart CABG (OPCABG) and on-pump CABG (ONCABG). The CABG results in various levels of morbidity, especially in smokers and addicts, who have a lower pain threshold. Regarding this, the ...

The coronary Bypass operation at the beating heart ("off-pump surgery") is a new procedure which promises advantages in comparison to the established procedure with uses a heart-lung machine ("on-pump-surgery"). In the presented HTA report cardiac surgery the question is investigated, whether there are advantages of the off-pump-surgery in comparison to the on-pump-surgery regarding medical eff...

BACKGROUND Women have consistently higher mortality and morbidity than men after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Whether elimination of cardiopulmonary bypass and performance of coronary artery bypass grafting off-pump (OPCAB) have a beneficial effect specifically in women has not been defined. METHODS AND RESULTS From January 1998 through March 2002, 21 902 consecutive female patient...

Background: Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is supposed to reduce perioperative mortality and morbidity compared with on-pump coronary bypass graft surgery. The causes of hemodynamic collapse during off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) remain scarcely defined. We present an analysis of 7 cases who were converted to conventional CABG due to sustained hemodynamic collapse ...

Graft patency and completeness of revascularization are major determinants of long-term outcome following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures (1,2). Even though the results of percutaneous coronary intervention are routinely assessed with on-table X-ray angiography, the patency of grafts is not routinely determined during either on-pump (ON-CABG) or off-pump (OP-CABG) revascularizati...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to identify the clinical implications of newly developed akinesia in echocardiography after off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and its relationship with graft patency. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 512 patients underwent off-pump CABG from January 2007 to November 2008. Two hundred and thirty-nine patients, whose echocardiography ...

PURPOSE Our objective is to clarify the technical points in using the symmetry aortic connector system (ACS) compared with hand-sewing from clinical and angiographic results of the patients who underwent off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). METHODS Among 84 patients who underwent CABG from January 2002 to August 2003, 36 off-pump CABGs were performed using at least one saphenous v...