–Significant risk over on-pump grafting found at 5 years in ROOBY trial. It seemed like a great idea. Perform coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) without stopping the heart and you can prevent the dangers of cardiopulmonary bypass. But it didn’t work out. After growing in popularity over the previous decade, in 2009 the first large, well-conducted…
Two Trials Explore On-Pump Versus Off-Pump Bypass Surgery
March 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 the ongoing debate over whether CABG should be performed with or without cardiopulmonary bypass. The combined results suggest that both techniques can be effective, and that surgeons…
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