Open AccessAborted Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Patients Have Much Worse Outcomes Than On-Pump or Successful Off-Pump Patients
Author(s) -
Ruyun Jin,
Loren F. Hiratzka,
Gary L. Grunkemeier,
Albert H. Krause,
U. Scott Page
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.104.526228
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , off pump coronary artery bypass , coronary artery disease , artery , bypass grafting
Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is purported to reduce perioperative mortality and morbidity compared with on-pump coronary bypass graft surgery. However, the outcomes of patients for whom an off-pump strategy must be changed to an on-pump procedure during surgery have not been extensively studied.
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