Off-pump coronary artery bypass
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off-pump-coronary-artery-bypass-175-7827736
title:
Off-pump coronary artery bypass
text:
Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB), or beating-heart surgery, is a form of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery performed without cardiopulmonary bypass as a treatment for coronary heart disease. It was primarily developed in the early 1990s by Dr. Amano Atsushi. Historically, during bypass surgeries, the heart is stopped and a heart-lung machine takes over the work of the heart and lungs. When a cardiac surgeon chooses to perform the CABG procedure off-pump (OPCAB) the heart is stil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-pump_coronary_artery_bypass
date created:
2007-09-23T15:57:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T06:11:51Z
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