Heparin Resistance: Predictors and Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators evaluated clinical impact of reduced heparin responsiveness (HRreduced) on the incidence of perioperative myocardial infarction (MI) and restenosis at 6 months after off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery (OPCAB) and identified its predictors.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yonsei University
• Treatments: Calcium heparin; Heparin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• enrolling all consecutive patients scheduled for elective isolated multivessel OPCAB between April 2007 and March 2008

Exclusion Criteria:

• presence of known preoperative coagulopathy, emergency operation or preoperative use of an intra-aortic balloon pump.