Does off-pump coronary-artery bypass surgery improve composite outcomes compared to on-pump surgery in patients undergoing CABG?
Off-pump CABG is associated with worse composite outcomes and poorer graft patency at 1 year compared to on-pump CABG.
At 1 year of follow-up, patients in the off-pump group had worse composite outcomes and poorer graft patency than did patients in the on-pump group. No significant differences between the techniques were found in neuropsychological outcomes or use of major resources. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00032630.).
Shroyer et al. (Wed,) studied this question.