HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Personal Folders Download to citation manager Author home page(s): Timothy J. Gardner Permission Requests Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Gardner, T. J. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Gardner, T. J. Related Collections Great vessels Related Article

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;133:1
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Editorial

On-pump versus off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Christiana Hospital, Christiana Health Care System, Newark, Del.

Received for publication September 12, 2006; accepted for publication September 20, 2006.

^_* Address for reprints: Timothy J. Gardner, MD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Christiana Hospital, Christiana Health Care System, Management Suite 1218, PO Box 6001, Newark, DE 19718. (Email: tgardner@christianacare.org; lthomas@christianacare.org).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

On the basis of a meta-analysis of five published reports that compare results of off-pump (OPCAB) versus on-pump coronary bypass graft (CABG) procedures, Takagi and his coauthors¹ claim that OPCAB resulted in a significant increase in overall graft occlusion. Their conclusion is based on follow-up angiographic studies done between 3 and 12 months in these randomized patients. Their analyses of the data from these five studies seem to establish that vein graft patency at 3 to 12 months after surgery is reduced with OPCAB. On this basis, the authors ask: "Dare we perform OPCAB rather than CABG to merely . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Related Article

Off-pump coronary artery bypass sacrifices graft patency: Meta-analysis of randomized trials

Hisato Takagi, Toshiyuki Tanabashi, Norikazu Kawai, Takayoshi Kato, and Takuya Umemoto
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2007 133: e2-e3. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

This article has been cited by other articles:

				B. R. Untch, W. P. Jeske, J. Schwartz, S. Botkin, M. Prechel, J. M. Walenga, and M. Bakhos Inflammatory and Hemostatic Activation in Patients Undergoing Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, April 1, 2008; 14(2): 141 - 148. [Abstract] [PDF]

				H. Takagi, T. Kato, and T. Umemoto Off-pump coronary artery bypass sacrifices graft patency J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg., May 1, 2007; 133(5): 1394 - 1395. [Full Text] [PDF]