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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:728-729
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1096

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We thank Drs Purohit and Zacharias very much for carefully reviewing our manuscript and making comments regarding the study design, techniques, and outcomes. We sincerely appreciate their comments related to agreeing with the single crossclamp method as a valid technique to improve results.

The authors were critical of our inclusion of a nonrandomized, selected group of off-pump patients in this study and including . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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