Journal article
Five-Year Outcomes after Off-Pump or On-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We previously reported that there was no significant difference at 30 days or at 1 year in the rate of the composite outcome of death, stroke, myocardial infarction, or renal failure between patients who underwent coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) performed with a beating-heart technique (off-pump) and those who underwent CABG performed with cardiopulmonary bypass (on-pump). We now report the results at 5 years (the end of the …
Authors
Lamy A; Devereaux PJ; Prabhakaran D; Taggart DP; Hu S; Straka Z; Piegas LS; Avezum A; Akar AR; Lanas Zanetti F
Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 375, No. 24, pp. 2359–2368
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Publication Date
December 15, 2016
DOI
10.1056/nejmoa1601564
ISSN
0028-4793