Off-pump or on-pump coronary-artery bypass grafting at 30 days.
BACKGROUND: The relative benefits and risks of performing coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) with a beating-heart technique (off-pump CABG), as compared with cardiopulmonary bypass (on-pump CABG), are not clearly established. METHODS: At 79 centers in 19 countries, we randomly assigned 4752 pat...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2012
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