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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;134:548
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

A meta-analysis of minimally invasive coronary artery bypass versus percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting for isolated left anterior descending artery disease is indispensable

Hisato Takagi, MD, PhD, Toshiyuki Tanabashi, MD, Norikazu Kawai, MD, Takuya Umemoto, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Medical Center, Shizuoka, Japan

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest a meta-analysis of randomized trials of off-pump coronary artery bypass versus percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) by Bainbridge and associates.1Go In response to a meta-analysis by Boodhwani and colleagues2Go of randomized trials comparing surgical versus percutaneous treatment of isolated left anterior descending (LAD) artery disease, we3Go conducted a meta-analysis . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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