Preoperative Intraaortic Balloon Pump Improves Early Outcomes Following High-Risk Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials and Prospective Study Design.

CONCLUSIONS: A strategy of routine prophylactic IABP use may reduce short-term mortality and MACCE in high-risk CABG patients. A definitive, adequately powered, prospective, randomized trial is warranted to confirm these results. PMID: 28915508 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Journal of Invasive Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Tags: J Invasive Cardiol Source Type: research