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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Main Authors: Lamy, A, Devereaux, P, Prabhakaran, D, Taggart, D, Hu, S, Paolasso, E, Straka, Z, Piegas, L, Akar, A, Jain, A, Noiseux, N, Padmanabhan, C, Bahamondes, J, Novick, R, Vaijyanath, P, Reddy, S, Tao, L, Olavegogeascoechea, P, Airan, B, Sulling, T, Whitlock, R, Ou, Y, Ng, J, Chrolavicius, S, Yusuf, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012