Off-pump coronary artery surgery
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R. M. Heames; R. S. Gill; S. K. Ohri; D. A. Hett
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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**Summary** Cardiopulmonary bypass has several associated deleterious effects that include a systemic inflammatory response, coagulopathy, central nervous system complications and a variable degree of end‐organ damage. The recent upsurge in interest in ‘beating‐heart’ surgery attempts to avoid these