Perioperative morbidity and mortality were reduced with off-pump vs on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, though survival ...

Patients who undergo off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery experience nearly one-third fewer postoperative strokes than those who receive standard surgery using cardiopulmonary ...

As time goes by, patients treated with off-pump CABG surgery have higher mortality, less complete revascularization, and more need for repeat revascularization in the ensuing years than those treated ...

Two large trials presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting in San Francisco and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine provide important new information about ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over the long term, on-pump CABG was associated with better survival than off-pump CABG, but other outcomes did ...

...the composite risk of major complications ... was significantly less in patients undergoing off-pump CABG... Selected patients—especially those considered at high risk—seem to benefit more from off ...

Boston, MA - Off-pump and on-pump CABG surgery both result in excellent outcomes, and neither procedure should be judged inferior to the other, according to a recent American Heart Association ...

Even though coronary artery bypass graft surgery with use of cardiopulmonary bypass (on-pump CABG) is associated with cognitive decline, avoiding cardiopulmonary bypass (off-pump CABG) had no effect ...

Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery has been established as a safe, effective and financially appealing alternative to on-pump CABG surgery, which uses a cardiopulmonary bypass ...

CHICAGO -- A large randomized trial comparing bypass surgery done with a heart-lung machine (on pump) and without it (off pump) found no differences in results between techniques overall but some ...

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 ...

Nov. 5 -- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Longer-term outcomes for people who had coronary bypass surgery "off-pump," meaning without the use of a heart-lung machine, were worse than for those ...