Aortic Clamping Strategy and Postoperative Stroke

The impact of aortic clamping strategy on short-term stroke during proximal graft construction for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains undefined. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that partial occluding clamp (POC) technique does not increase incidence of postoperative stroke when compared to single clamp (SC) technique for performing proximal coronary anastomoses.

Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - April 13, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Mohamad Alaeddine, Vinay Badhwar, Maria V. Grau-Sepulveda, Lawrence M. Wei, Chris C. Cook, Michael E. Halkos, Vinod H. Thourani, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Roland Matsouaka, James Meza, Matthew Brennan, Thomas G. Gleason, Danny Chu Source Type: research