Off-pump Bypass Surgery: Experience of 250 Cases

250 patients with coronary artery disease (57% 1-vessel, 39% 2-vessel, 4% 3-vessel disease), mean age 63 years (range 31-86 years).

Coronary artery bypass grafting using the off-pump technique (without extracorporeal circulation) via sternotomy (n=196) or anterior mini-thoracotomy (n=54).

Perioperative mortality, early postoperative graft patency (days 1-5), and perioperative complications (myocardial infarction, bleeding, ventilatory support time, ICU time, in-hospital time).hard clinical