Clampless facilitated anastomosis with HEARSTRING to reduce cerebral damage during off-pump coronary bypass grafting. Don't forget it: Easy to use!

In their prospective randomized study, Halkos and colleagues1 highlight a strategy to reduce the risk of cerebral embolism during on-pump and off-pump aortic coronary bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. The authors compared 4 groups of patients according to the surgical technique used. Because of the low number of patients in each group, the main purpose of the study was to detect the high-intensity transient signals (HITS) by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography instead of the incidence of major neurologic events such as cerebral stroke.

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