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Off-pump surgery in preventing perioperative stroke after CABG

Sunday, October 6, 2013

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Source Name: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/4/725.abstract

Author(s)

Fernando Hornero, Elio Martín, Rafael Rodríguez, Manel Castellà, Carlos Porras, Bernat Romero, Luis Maroto, and Enrique Pérez de la Sota

A multicenter retrospective study on over 26000 patients compared off-pump and on-pump surgery for CABG. Off-pump surgery was associated with a lower perioperative incidence of stroke in patients with two or more cardiovascular risk factors especially with chronic renal failure.