1. Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting provides complete revascularization with reduced myocardial injury, transfusion requirements, and length of stay: A prospective randomized comparison of two hundred unselected patients undergoing off-pump versus conventional coronary artery bypass grafting 
J.D. Puskas, MDa, W.H. Williams, MDa,d, P.G. Duke, MDc, J.R. Staples, MDc, K.E. Glas, MDc, J.J. Marshall, MDb, M. Leimbach, MDb, P. Huber, MDb, S. Garas, MDb, B.H. Sammons, RNa, S.A. McCall, RNa, R.J. Petersen, RNa, D.E. Bailey, RN, PA-Ca, H. Chu, PhDd, E.M. Mahoney, PhDd, W.S. Weintraub, MDd, R.A. Guyton, MDa 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 125, Issue 4, Pages (April 2003)
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2. Fig. 1
Serial postoperative measures of myocardial enzyme release were significantly lower in OPCAB (dark bars), than in CABG with CPB (light bars), suggesting less myocardial injury. A, Creatine kinase MB; B, troponin I.
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