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Five-Year Outcomes after Off-Pump or On-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Submitted by

Tom C. Nguyen

Source

Source Name: New England Journal of Mendicine

Source URL: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1601564

Author(s)

André Lamy, P.J. Devereaux, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, David P. Taggart, Shengshou Hu, Zbynek Straka, Leopoldo S. Piegas, Alvaro Avezum, Ahmet R. Akar, Fernando Lanas Zanetti, Anil R. Jain, Nicolas Noiseux, Chandrasekar Padmanabhan, Juan-Carlos Bahamondes, Richard J. Novick, Liang Tao, Pablo A. Olavegogeascoechea, Balram Airan, Toomas-Andres Sulling, Richard P. Whitlock, Yongning Ou, Peggy Gao, Shirley Pettit, and Salim Yusuf, for the CORONARY Investigators

This trial randomly assigned 4,752 patients from 19 countries to either on-pump or off-pump CABG with a mean follow-up of 4.8 years. The authors report no difference in death, stroke, myocardial infarction, renal failure or repeat revascularization at 5 years between the two groups.