Transcriptomics in cardiac surgery

Anesthetic gases elicit organ protection in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. This study aimed at identifying myocardial transcriptional phenotypes and anesthetic-induced changes in gene expression to predict cardiovascular biomarkers and cardiac function after off-pump CABG. Keywords: cardiac surgery, anesthetics Patients scheduled for off-pump CABG were randomized into a group with the anesthetic gas sevoflurane (n=10) or the intravenous anesthetic propofol (n=10). Atrial samples were collected at the beginning and end of bypass surgery to determine gene expression profiles.