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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;127:300-301
© 2004 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the editor

Off-pump versus conventional coronary artery bypass grafting: Randomized studies

R. Ascione, MD, G. D. Angelini, MD

Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, United Kingdom

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To the Editor:

We congratulate Puskas and colleagues1 on their prospective, randomized study assessing the efficacy of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) relative to conventional CABG techniques. We are pleased to see that their early in-hospital findings are similar to the results of the Beating Heart Against Cardioplegic Arrest Study (BHACAS) 1 and 2 trials conducted by our group.2 Indeed, since our first randomized study3 several others have been published, some with respectable sample sizes,4-5 and the Surgical Management of Arterial Revascularization Therapies (SMART) trial is the latest in this series. We appreciate that the available presence of all these trials somehow reduces the "visibility" of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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