title: [Beating heart coronary artery bypass: 100 cases].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Coronary artery revascularization with cardiopulmonary bypass has been reported to carry several risks.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting has been proposed to result in a better outcome. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of off-pump cardiopulmonary bypass.
  
  
  METHODS
  In a 7-year period, a total of 100 patients undergoing isolated first-time off-pump coronary artery bypass graft were studied. The mean ejection fractions was 48% and the EUROSCORE mean was 4.9.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average number of grafts was 1.55 per patient. The postoperative outcomes were simple for most patients with little use of inotropes after 24 hours (42%), few cases of atrial fibrillation (9.4%), and transfusion (27.3%). Time to extubation was less than 48 hours in most cases (94.7%) and hospital mortality rate was 10.5%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The beating heart bypass surgery allows good immediate results including multi-vessel disease and in patients at high risk.
authors.affiliation: Universite Tunis, El Manar, Tunisie.
authors.forename: Atef
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ben Youssef
authors.forename: Mouna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bousnina
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ouerghi
authors.forename: Ferdaous
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Berraies
authors.forename: Med H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kamoun
authors.forename: Taher
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mestiri
authors.forename: Tarek
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kilani
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002316:Cardiotonic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004363:Drug Utilization; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications
chemical_list: D002316:Cardiotonic Agents