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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:212
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Sotiris C. Stamou, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 27562 Remington Circle, Westlake, OH 44145

(Email: cvsisfun@hotmail.com).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

Reply to the Editor:

We appreciate the interest of Dr Ashraf in our article comparing the outcomes of nonelective on-pump with those of off-pump myocardial revascularization. Dr Ashraf is concerned that our results are not confirmed by well-randomized trials comparing the 2 techniques. However, we are not aware of any randomized controlled trials comparing the outcomes of patients having nonelective off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with those of historical control subjects. Such an endeavor might require randomized trials of impractical size to prove . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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