MedPage Today 
(5/18, Neale) reports, "For patients with impaired renal function,
performing CABG off-pump rather than on-pump appears to improve
outcomes," according to a
study
published online May 17 in the Journal of the American Society of
Nephrology. "Across the range of renal function, off-pump CABG was
associated with a slightly lower rate of in-hospital death or the need
for renal replacement therapy compared with on-pump CABG (1.8% versus
2%)," researchers reported.
"The benefit of off-pump CABG increased as renal function worsened," the
study based on data derived from 742,909 CABG cases found.
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