Introduction of an OPCAB Program Aimed at Total Arterial Grafting in a Multidisciplinary Setting: Feasible and Safe?

Abstract

With predefined standardized and coordinated protocols, an OPCAB program aimed at total arterial revascularization can be implemented rapidly and safely in a multidisciplinary setting.

Hybrid cardiac procedure: the ultimate cooperation

“…3 Nowadays, with the modern tools and the experience of the surgeons in performing off-pump revascularisation, it is possible to reach all territories of the heart, even with arterial grafts. [4][5][6] In our daily practice we are doing less hybrid coronary interventions and more and more complete total arterial off-pump CABG operations for three-vessel disease. Numbers of distal anastomoses vary from three to six, even in patients with impaired left ventricular function.…”