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Drs. Rose and Oz Quoted in New York Times about OP-CAB
May 2003
Dr. Eric A. Rose and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz were featured in the Science Times section of the New York Times, May 13, 2003, in a front-page article entitled, "Heart Pump and Brain Injury: A Riddle Deepens With Time."
The article, by Times science writer Gina Kolata, described the mental problems, including confusion and forgetfulness, that often accompany coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).
The problems were assumed to be associated with the heart-lung pump that allows surgeons to stop the heart during the operation.
As a solution, surgeons developed an off-pump operation (known as OP-CAB) on the beating heart.
Research about results with OP-CAB as compared to conventional CABG procedures are just beginning to be collected.
Meanwhile, a study from Johns Hopkins showed that mental confusion may be a by-product of heart disease, rather than CABG surgery.
Dr. Oz and Dr. Rose, early proponents of OP-CAB, have "lost their enthusiasm for off-pump surgery," the article states.
"This could be a lot like female hormones," Dr. Rose says in a quote from the article, referring to the proliferation of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women that ended when results of the Women's Health Initiative study were released last year. In a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial, Dr. Rose argued for the need for additional research about OP-CAB.
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