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AIMS To assess the benefit of off-pump coronary surgery stratified by the pre-operative risk profile. METHODS AND RESULTS Prospective and multicentric cohort study. All consecutive patients undergoing a first coronary bypass procedure between November 2001 and November 2003 were potentially eligible. Pre-operative EuroSCORE and in-hospital outcomes were prospectively collected using strictly ...

OBJECTIVE Despite numerous randomized and nonrandomized trials on off- and on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, it remains open which method is superior. Patient selection and small sample sizes limit the evidence from randomized trials; lack of randomization limits the evidence from nonrandomized trials. Propensity score analyses are expected to improve on at least some of these problems. ...

Increasingly more Americans are being diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, and the number of those using the continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion pump (CSII), commonly known as the insulin pump, is on the rise. Although evidence is lacking on how best to manage insulin pump patients perioperatively, several individual or institutional approaches have been developed. Here we propose a comprehen...

Objective. To evaluate the fate of ON-pump vs. OP-CABG surgery at mid-term follow-up. Methods. Data from 166 consecutive OP-CABG patients compared with those of 203 ONpump CABG patients operated on the same time of OP-CABG operations were retrospectively analyzed. Results. As compared to OP-CABG, in the ON-pump CABG patients mean value of Logistic EuroSCORE (8.1%±7.8% vs. 6.2%±5.9%; P<0.05), mo...

BACKGROUND On-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery impairs gas exchange in the early postoperative period. The main object on this study was evaluation of changes in arterial blood gas values in patients underwent on pump CABG surgery receiving different dose of intravenous nitroglycerin (NTG). MATERIALS AND METHODS sixty-seven consecutive patients undergoing elective on-pump CABG...

OBJECTIVE Female sex is considered a significant risk in cardiac surgery and is included in the majority of scores for risk assessment. However, the evidence is controversial and older women undergoing cardiac surgery have not specifically been investigated. We assessed the influence of female sex on surgical risk (30-day mortality) in a secondary analysis of the GOPCABE trial (German Off-Pump ...

background: sexual dysfunction is one of the most common problems in men after coronary artery bypass graft (cabg). etiology of sexual dysfunction in these patients may be psychological or organic due to hormonal changes. objective: the purpose was to evaluate the incidence and type of sexual dysfunction and changes in serum concentration of sex hormones in male patients undergoing on-pump cabg...