Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Indications, Contraindications and Outcomes
Chapter 1: Indications and Contraindications of Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Marco Moscarelli, Nishith N. Patel and Gianni D. Angelini)
Chapter 2: Systemic Inflammatory Response after Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Shahzad G. Raja)
Chapter 3: Postoperative Bleeding and Transfusion Requirements after Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Shahzad G. Raja)
Chapter 4: Myocardial Outcomes after Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Ishtiaq A. Rahman and Raimondo Ascione)
Chapter 5: Pulmonary Outcomes after Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Ana Maria R.P. e Silva and Luíz Antônio Rivetti)
Chapter 6: Renal Outcomes after Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Sagar U. Nigwekar, Praveen Kandula, Charuhas V. Thakar and John K. Hix)
Chapter 7: Cerebral Outcomes after Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Diederik van Dijk)
Chapter 8: Gastrointestinal Outcomes after Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Shahzad G. Raja)
Chapter 9: Outcomes of Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in High Risk Patients
(Domenico Calcaterra, Tomas A. Salerno and Marco Ricci)
Chapter 10: Outcomes of Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Elderly
(Shahzad G. Raja and Mohamed Amrani)
Chapter 11: Outcomes of Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in the Presence of Atherosclerotic Aorta
(Sotiris C. Stamou, Robert C. Hagberg and Kevin W. Lobdell)
Chapter 12: Outcomes of Sequential Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Robert L. Quigley)
Chapter 13: Outcomes of Total Arterial Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Jan G. Grandjean and Massimo A. Mariani)
Chapter 14: Quality of Life Outcomes after Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Christian H. Møller and Daniel A. Steinbrüchel)
Chapter 15: Economic Outcomes of Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Dinesh Kurian, Michael Simmons, Soroosh Kiani and Robert S. Poston)
Section 2: Concerns
Chapter 16: Graft Patency and Quality of Anastomosis in Off-pump Coronary Bypass Grafting
(Mark D. Pullan)
Chapter 17: Completeness of Revascularization in Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Nirav C. Patel and Valavanur A. Subramanian)
Chapter 18: Learning Curve and Training in Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Matteo Pettinari, Valerie Dekoninck and Paul T. Sergeant)
Chapter 19: Hypercoagulable State after Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Shahzad G. Raja and Robert S. Poston)
Chapter 20: Conversion to Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Antonios Kourliouros, Dayal Mukherjee and Thanos Athanasiou)
Chapter 21: Complications Unique to Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Jacob Bergsland and Emir Mujanovic)
Chapter 22: Strategic Forces Influencing the Adoption of Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Michael Simmons, Dinesh Kurian and Robert S. Poston)
Section 3: Controversies
Chapter 23: Shunt or Snare for Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Naresh Trehan, Rajneesh Malhotra and Udgeath Dhir)
Chapter 24: Endoscopic versus Open Vein Harvesting for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Maral Ouzounian, Celeste MacPherson and Imtiaz S. Ali)
Chapter 25: Dual Anti-platelet Therapy after Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
(Alexander Kulik and Marc Ruel)
Chapter 26: Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Impaired Ventricular Function
(Maximillian Y. Emmert and Volkmar Falk)
Chapter 27: Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
(Khalil Fattouch, Pietro Dioguardi, Francesco Guccione, Giuseppe Bianco)
Index