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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;124:210-211
© 2002 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

Optimizing neurologic outcome in coronary bypass surgery

Emmanuel Villa, MD, Andrea Moneta, MD, Francesco Donatelli, MD

IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Univerità degli Studi, Milan, Italy

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the recently published experience of Kihara and colleaguesGo 1 about the treatment of concomitant coronary artery disease and intracranial vascular disease. They suggest that intracranial vascular stenosis be treated with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) and that on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) be performed within 5 days after the procedure. In the case of diffuse stenosis of intracranial vessels, they do not treat the intracranial vessels and proceed to off-pump CABG plus coronary PTA (ie, hybrid revascularization).

The authors do not quote specific publications regarding intracranial cerebral artery disease . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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