Off-pump Bypass
This 10-year follow-up of the ROBY study reports on the primary end points of all-cause death and the composite of death or revascularization among 2203 patients randomized to off-pump or on-pump CABG 2002-2007. Death rates...
This case presents an exceptionally rare and previously unreported combination of intrinsic carotid stenosis and chronic external compression due to a retained ballistic injury. A retained stray bullet injury from...
This 10-year follow-up of the ROBY study reports on the primary end points of all-cause death and the composite of death or revascularization among 2203 patients randomized to off-pump or...
Interesting in its candour mini-series of partial arterial revascularisation by left thoracotomy. The perioperative graft failure is delt in some detail.
...The authors in this study performed a post-hoc analysis of the coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) cohort in the multicenter randomized EXCEL trial, comparing patients undergoing on-pump versus off-pump procedures...
Sotirios Prapas of the Henry Dunant Hospital Center in Athens, Greece, discusses the technique of off-pump coronary artery bypass using two internal mammary arteries (IMAs). He presents the different grafting...
In this study the authors randomized 142 patients within two separate treatment arms: (1) Patients undergoing on-pump CABG were randomized to either a single- vs. double-clamp technique for proximals; (2)...
The 5-year outcomes of a Veterans Affairs trial of off-pump vs on-pump CABG are reported. Mortality in the off-pump group was 15.2% compared to 11.9% in the on-pump group (RR...
Preoperative Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) with the Powerbreathe device was assessed with regard to whether A-a gradients and inspiratory muscle power would be improved after CABG. A group of 40...
The authors randomized 68 patients undergoing CABG to three treatment groups: ASA 81 mg QD ASA 325 mg QD ASA 162 mg BID On the 4th day following CABG, the...
This study is the 5-year follow-up of a large randomized controlled trial of on-pump CABG vs. OPCAB performed by seasoned surgeons. A total of 4,752 patients were included in this...
This editor hastes to submit to JANS this manuscript on the 5 year follow -up of the ART trial. It is guaranteed to be widely cited, probably hotly debated and...
This retrospective study evaluated the relationship between the timing betweenLHC and CABG and its effect on renal function in a cohort of 2371 patients at a single center. Findings included:...


