There was no significant difference between off-pump and on-pump CABG with respect to the 30-day rate of death, myocardial infarction, stroke, or renal failure requiring dialysis.
The use of off-pump CABG resulted in reduced rates of transfusion, reoperation for perioperative bleeding, respiratory complications, and acute kidney injury but also resulted in an increased risk of early revascularization. (Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; CORONARY ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00463294.).
2012-04-19
Eng.
The New England journal of medicine
Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. lamya [at] mcmaster.ca
N Engl J Med. 2012 Apr;366(16):1489-97
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