Off-Pump or On-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting at 30 Days

Lamy, André; Devereaux, P.J.; Prabhakaran, Dorairaj; P. Taggart, David; Hu, Shengshou; Paolasso, Ernesto; Straka, Zbyněk; Soares Piegas, Leopoldo; Rüçhan Akar, Ahmet; Jain, Anil; Noiseux, Nicolas; Padmanabhan, Chandrasekar; Bahamondes, Juan-Carlos; J. Novick, Richard; Vaijyanath, Prashant; Reddy, Sukesh; Tao, Liang; A. Olavegogeascoechea, Pablo; Airan, Balram; Sulling, Toomas-Andres; Whitlock, Richard; Ou, Yongning; Ng, Jennifer; Chrolavicius, Susan; Yusuf, Salim

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1200388

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Off-Pump or On-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting at 30 Days

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Mar 26, 2012

Authors:

André Lamy

P.J. Devereaux

Dorairaj Prabhakaran

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The relative benefits and risks of performing coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) with a beating-heart technique (off-pump CABG), as compared with cardiopulmonary bypass (on-pump CABG), are not clearly established. METHODS: At 79 centers in 19 countries, we randomly assigned 4752 pati...

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Medicine

Off-pump coronary artery bypass

Bypass grafting

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