Is Off-Pump CABG Really Inferior to On-Pump Strategies for Long-Term Survival?

Comparison of long-term outcomes between Off-Pump CABG and conventional CABG.

Method This retrospective study was based on data from 183 patients who underwent CABG between January, 2000 and December, 2005. OPCAB was performed in 102 patients and c-CABG in 81. The mean follow-up duration was 107 months. The end-points of long-term results were overall death, freedom from cardiac death and major adverse cardiac events (MACE). We expressed the Kaplan-Meyer survival curve, ...

Off-pump vs. on-pump CABG: are we any closer to a resolution?

Afilalo and colleagues have presented an updated meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized trials of off-pump vs. on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. Their two major findings are that while there was a reduction in mortality, myocardial infarction, and stroke in the off-pump group, this only reached significance for the latter, and that the effect of off-pump CABG was ...

Which is the best technique for CABG; OPCAB, on-pump arrest CABG or on-pump beating CABG?

Received: March 15, 2011; Accepted: March 31, 2011 Corresponding author: Munetaka Masuda, MD. Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Fukuura 3-9, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0004, Japan Email: [email protected] ©2011 The Editorial Committee of Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights reserved. Role of Coronary Artery Bypass...

Off-pump versus On-pump Cabg for Women 2002;74:2113–20 Invited Commentary

In hospital outcome of patients undergoing coronary endarterectomy: comparison between off-pump vs on pump CABG.

BACKGROUND Due to advancement of non-surgical methods of coronary revascularization the patients referred for surgery have extensive and complex coronary anatomy. Patients with diffuse atheromatous coronary artery disease required coronary artery reconstruction or coronary endarterectomy (CE). Coronary endarterectomy on beating heart needs skill and better surgical technique. Coronary endartere...