Five-Year Outcomes after On-Pump and Off-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass

In the 1990s, enthusiasm reemerged for performing coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery on a beating heart without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (off pump). Patients with poor cardiac function or complex coexisting conditions (e.g. lung disease or stroke) initially appeared to have…

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