Midterm results of beating heart surgery in 1-vessel disease: minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass versus off-pump coronary artery bypass with full sternotomy.

Abstract

Our initial experience in beating heart surgery demonstrated that MIDCAB is technically more challenging than OPCAB. MIDCAB procedures should therefore be performed by experienced surgeons on selected patients. Midterm results after OPCAB procedures tend to a lower rate of adverse cardiac events.