Comparison of patients receiving salicylate before coronary artery surgery with patients not receiving in terms of postoperative mortality rates

Methods Sixty one patients that underwent coronary bypass surgery between January 2011 and December 2011 at our clinic were investigated retrospectively. Sixty one (80.3%) of them were operated on under cardiopulmonary bypass and 12 (19.7%) were operated on beating heart. Thirty (49.2%) of them were receivers of 100 mg enteric coated salicylate and 31 (50.8%) were non-receivers, divided into 2 groups. The mean age of salicylate receivers was 61.33 years whereas it was 57.71 years in the non-receivers.