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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;125:797-808
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery


Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease

Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting provides complete revascularization with reduced myocardial injury, transfusion requirements, and length of stay: A prospective randomized comparison of two hundred unselected patients undergoing off-pump versus conventional coronary artery bypass grafting

J. D. Puskas, MDa, W. H. Williams, MDa,d, P. G. Duke, MDc, J. R. Staples, MDc, K. E. Glas, MDc, J. J. Marshall, MDb, M. Leimbach, MDb, P. Huber, MDb, S. Garas, MDb, B. H. Sammons, RNa, S. A. McCall, RNa, R. J. Petersen, RNa, D. E. Bailey, RN, PA-Ca, H. Chu, PhDd, E. M. Mahoney, PhDd, W. S. Weintraub, MDd, R. A. Guyton, MDa

From the Divisions of Cardiothoracic Surgery,a Cardiology,b and Cardiac Anesthesiology,c Emory University School of Medicine, and the Emory Center for Outcomes Research,d Atlanta, Ga.

Supported by grants from Medtronic, Inc, Minneapolis, Minn, and The Carlyle Fraser Heart Center Foundation, Atlanta, Ga.

Read at the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Washington, DC, May 5-8, 2002.

Received for publication May 5, 2002. Revisions requested June 14, 2002; revisions received June 27, 2002. Accepted for publication July 8, 2002. Address for reprints: John D. Puskas, MD, MSc, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery (Cardiothoracic), Emory University School of Medicine, Crawford Long Hospital, Sixth Floor, Medical Office Tower, 550 Peachtree St, NE, Atlanta, GA 30308 (E-mail: john_puskas{at}emoryhealthcare.org).

Objective: Retrospective comparisons of selected patients undergoing off-pump versus conventional on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting have yielded inconsistent results and raised concerns about completeness of revascularization in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.
Methods: Two hundred unselected patients referred for elective primary coronary artery bypass grafting were randomly assigned to undergo off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting with an Octopus tissue stabilizer (Medtronic, Inc, Minneapolis, Minn) or conventional coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass by a single surgeon. Revascularization intent determined before random assignment was compared with the revascularization performed. All management followed strict, unbiased, criteria-driven protocols. Patients and nonoperative care providers were blinded to surgical group.
Results: Baseline characteristics were similar. The number of grafts performed per patient (mean ± SD 3.39 ± 1.04 for off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, 3.40 ± 1.08 for conventional coronary artery bypass grafting) and the index of completeness of revascularization (number of grafts performed/number of grafts intended, 1.00 ± 0.18 for off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, 1.01 ± 0.09 for conventional coronary artery bypass grafting) were similar. Likewise, the index of completeness of revascularization was similar between groups for the lateral wall. Combined hospital and 30-day mortalities and stroke rates were similar. Postoperative myocardial serum enzyme measures were significantly lower after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, suggesting less myocardial injury. Adjusted postoperative thromboelastogram indices, fibrinogen, international normalized ratio, and platelet levels all showed significantly less coagulopathy after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting received fewer units of blood, were more likely to avoid transfusion altogether, and had a higher hematocrit at discharge. Cardiopulmonary bypass was an independent predictor of transfusion (odds ratio 2.42, P = .0073) by multivariate analysis. More patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting were extubated in the operating room and within 4 hours. Postoperative length of stay (in days) was shorter for off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (5.1 ± 6.5 for off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, 6.1 ± 8.2 for conventional coronary artery bypass grafting, P = .005 by Wilcoxon test). One patient (in the conventional coronary artery bypass grafting group) required angioplasty for graft closure within 30 days.
Conclusions: When compared with conventional coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass, off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting achieved similar completeness of revascularization, similar in-hospital and 30-day outcomes, shorter length of stay, reduced transfusion requirement, and less myocardial injury.




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