Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
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Louis Samuels

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• Research Article
  Pump-Assisted Beating-Heart Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: The Pursuit of Perfection
  Author(s): Louis Samuels and Marissa Samuels Louis Samuels and Marissa Samuels
  
  Background: The techniques utilized to accomplish Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) include the traditional use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with aortic cross-clamping and cardioplegic arrest to totally Off- Pump (i.e. OP-CAB) without CPB. The purpose of this report is to describe a hybrid approach-Pump-Assisted Direct CABG (PAD-CAB)-- with the aid of CPB without aortic cross-clamping and cardioplegic arrest. Methods: Between November 2003 and December 2016, 317 PAD-CAB procedures were performed by the author/surgeon. The PAD-CAB procedures were achieved with standard CPB via sternotomy under normothermic conditions with the mean arterial pressures (MAP) kept between 60 and 80 mmHg. Outcome measures included hospital mortality and specific major adverse events (MAE) benchmarked against the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) database... View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9880.1000540

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