Risk of stroke with "no-touch" - As compared to conventional off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting. An updated meta-analysis of observational studies

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Dr Antoni Jurasz Memorial University Hospital in Bydgoszcz, Poland; Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Ergonomics, Division of Ergonomics and Physical Effort, Collegium Medicum UMK in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Electronic address: kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.
• ² Clinical Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior in Warsaw, Poland; Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities, Radom, Poland.
• ³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Dr Antoni Jurasz Memorial University Hospital in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ⁵ Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, IRCCS-ISMETT (Istituto Mediterraneo per I Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione), Palermo, Italy.
• ⁶ University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital and University of Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.