October 1, 2008Current Opinion in Cardiology
Intraoperative coronary graft assessment
Why the study?
Does intraoperative graft assessment improve the detection of graft failure in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting?
Population
Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May aid early graft failure detection in CABG; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials before practice change.
Structured PICO
Does intraoperative graft assessment improve the detection of graft failure in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting?
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Population
Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
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Intervention
Intraoperative graft assessment methods (transit time flow measurement, intraoperative fluorescence imaging, coronary angiography)
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Outcome
Graft failure detection and graft closure ratessurrogate
Wider use of intraoperative graft assessment techniques like transit time flow measurement and fluorescence imaging may help detect early graft occlusion and reduce graft failure in CABG.
Cite This Study
Michael J. Mack (2008) studied this question.