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 ...

November 4, 2009 (Northport, New York) — Off-pump CABG surgery showed no advantages over the conventional on-pump approach in a large randomized trial conducted at Veterans Affairs hospitals [1]. The ...

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 ...

We randomly assigned patients 75 years of age or older who were scheduled for elective first-time CABG to undergo the procedure either without cardiopulmonary bypass (off-pump CABG) or with it ...

...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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how pericardial MPO improves postoperative atrial fibrillation prediction and could refine perioperative risk ...

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 ...

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 ...