1. Buffolo et al reported coronary bypass by simple interruption of coronary flow in 1985 and the same year Frederico Benetti and his group described their initial experience from Buenos Aires.'9 20 Benetti's experience of more than 2000 cases was stimulated by limited resources. Non-pump CABG allowed a substantially greater throughput of patients than would otherwise have been possible.20 Postoperative angiography has shown no significant difference in graft patency between bypass and non-bypass patients when the saphenous vein or the intemal mammary artery was used.20
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4. Changing use of coronary angioplasty and coronary bypass surgery in the treatment of chronic coronary artery disease;Weintraub, W.S.; Jones, E.L.; King, S.B.; Craver, J.;AmJ Cardiol,1990
5. Coronary surgery and coronary angioplasty in patients with two-vessel coronary artery disease;Weintraub, W.S.; King, S.B.; Jones, E.L.; Douglas, J.S.;Am I Cardiol,1993