Improving coronary artery bypass grafting: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the impact of adopting transit-time flow measurement.

ABSTRACT: Despite there being numerous studies of intraoperative graft flow assessment by transit-time flow measurement (TTFM) on outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), the adoption of contemporary TTFM is low. Therefore, on 31 January 2018, a systematic literature search was performed to identify articles that reported (i) the amount of grafts classified as abnormal or which were revised or (ii) an association between TTFM and outcomes during follow-up. Random-effects models were used to create pooled estimates with 95% confidence intervals (CI) of (i) the rate of graft revision per patient, (ii) the rate of graft revision per graft and (iii) the rate of graft revision among grafts deemed abnormal based on TTFM parameters. The search yielded 242 articles, and 66 original articles we

SUBMITTER: Thuijs DJFM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751409 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature