Mohamad Alaeddine, Vinay Badhwar, Maria V Grau-Sepulveda, Lawrence M Wei, Chris C Cook, Michael E Halkos, Vinod H Thourani, Jeffrey P Jacobs, Roland Matsouaka, James Meza, Matthew Brennan, Thomas G Gleason, Danny Chu
OBJECTIVE: The effect of aortic clamping strategy on short-term stroke during proximal graft construction for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains undefined. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that partial occluding clamp (POC) technique does not increase incidence of postoperative stroke compared with single clamp (SC) technique for performing proximal coronary anastomoses. METHODS: We identified 52,611 patients who underwent on-pump CABG in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database from July 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015...
October 2018: Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery