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A comparison of short- and long-term outcomes after off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery with sternotomy

Michael J. Racz, MA^*||||, Edward L. Hannan, PhD^*,*, O. Wayne Isom, MD, Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD, Robert H. Jones, MD, FACC, Jeffrey P. Gold, MD^||, Thomas J. Ryan, MD, FACC^¶, Alan Hartman, MD^#, Alfred T. Culliford, MD^**, Edward Bennett, MD, Robert A. Lancey, MD and Eric A. Rose, MD

^* University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
New York Hospital-Cornell, New York, New York, USA
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, USA
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
^|| Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
^¶ Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
^# North Shore-LIJ Health System, Manhasset, New York, USA
^** New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
St. Peter's Hospital, Albany, New York, USA
Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York, USA
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
^|||| Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

View larger version (22K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Ninety-five percent confidence intervals for the adjusted ln(hazard ratio) of on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery/off-pump CABG surgery for patient survival and freedom from death and revascularization within a three-year period (for all patients and for seven subgroups).

View larger version (21K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Three-year adjusted Kaplan-Meier curves for survival and for freedom from death and revascularization for on-pump versus off-pump bypass surgery.