Journal article
Effects of Off-Pump and On-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting at 1 Year
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Previously, we reported that there was no significant difference at 30 days in the rate of a primary composite outcome of death, myocardial infarction, stroke, or new renal failure requiring dialysis 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 results on quality of …
Authors
Lamy A; Devereaux PJ; Prabhakaran D; Taggart DP; Hu S; Paolasso E; Straka Z; Piegas LS; Akar AR; Jain AR
Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 368, No. 13, pp. 1179–1188
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Publication Date
March 28, 2013
DOI
10.1056/nejmoa1301228
ISSN
0028-4793