1) Patient age lower than 40 and higher than 70 |
2) Existence of preoperative medically treated COPD or renal disease |
3) Existence of preoperative hematological dysfunction |
4) Preoperative warfarine and/or fibrinolytic agent treatment |
5) Acute MI with emergent surgery |
6) Re-operations for CABG |
7) Concomitant valve and/or vascular surgery |
8) Existence of preoperative atrial fibrillation |
9) Intraoperative or early postoperative deaths |
10) IABP implantations |
11) Beating heart CABG operations |
12) LVEF below 35% |