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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;135:1400
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Perspectives on patients with diabetes mellitus and triple-vessel disease undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting after previous percutaneous coronary intervention

Ravinay Bhindi, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FESC, William Van Gaal, MBBS, FRACP, Luca Testa, MD

Department of Cardiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

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To the Editor:

In their recent article, Thielmann and colleagues1Go concluded that previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with diabetes and triple-vessel disease is an independent predictor of death and major adverse cardiac events for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). We wish to point out a few confounders and issues that we believe readers should take into consideration when interpreting this study. First, as acknowledged by the authors, the statistical analysis . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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