Historical considerations / Raymond Cartier -- Cardiopulmonary bypass and inflammation / Francois Dagenais -- Potential benefit of OPCAB surgery / Marzia Leache and Raymond Cartier -- Principles of stabilization and hemodynamics in OPCAB surgery / Raymond Cartier -- Anesthetic management for OPCAB / Patrick Limoges, Robert Blain, and Peter Sheridan -- Indications and surgical strategies for OPCAB / Nicolas Derrleman and Raymond Cartier -- Effects of vascular-interrupting and hemostatic devices on coronary artery endothelial function in beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery / Roland G. Demaria and Louis P. Perrault -- Systematic OPCAB surgery for multivessel disease with the CoroNeo Cor-Vasc device / Raymond Cartier -- Understanding the mechanisms of hemodynamic and echocardiographic changes during OPCAB surgery / Pierre Couture ... [et al.] -- Cerebral complications following coronary artery bypass grafting surgery / Marzia Leache and Raymond Cartier -- OPCAB surgery in high risk-patients / Gengarr Apoo and Raymond Cartier -- Pitfalls in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery / Nicolas Derrleman and Raymond Cartier -- Sutureless coronary artery bypass grafting : experimental and clinical progress / Kenton J. Zehr -- The future of coronary artery surgery : quo vadimus? / Ray C.-J. Chiu.