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The future of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: a North American perspective.
Authors: Yanagawa B, Nedadur R, Puskas JD Abstract Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCAB) is currently performed routinely in a minority of specialized centers and in many more centers, utilized only when a porcelain aorta mandates a no-touch aortic technique. The OPCAB literature can be summarized as follows: (I) large-scale randomized trials in relatively low risk patients that include surgeons with a range of experience demonstrating no consistent beneficial differences in major cardiovascular and cerebrovascular outcomes but lower transfusion rates and shorter length of stay, tempered by some reports of ...
Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - December 14, 2016 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Thorac Dis Source Type: research