Five-Year Outcome After Off-Pump or On-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Elderly Patients
This article concludes that five-year survival and morbidity rates in patients over 75 years of age did not differ between off-pump and on-pump groups. The main determinant of poorer long term outcome was incomplete revascularization.
not surprising, the Achilles heel of off pump surgery has always been incomplete revascularization?
It can be interpreted that either you perform an off- or on-pump CABG on the elderly, there was no superiority benefit for the on-pump CABG over the off-pump anyway.