J Cardiovasc Surg
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Comparison of the efficacy of the cardiac hypothermia and normothermia to myocardial damage in coronary artery bypass graft surgery with systemic normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass.
The aim of our research is to investigate the cardiac damage formed by either local cardiac hypothermia or cardiac normothermia technique in patients who undergone isolated coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. ⋯ Myocardial damage was less than in normothermia group according to hypothermia group. The results show that ice-cold blood cardioplegia and local ice treatment of the heart during CPB seems to harm the heart more than warm blood cardioplegia.