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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:238-239
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor:

Robert Poston, MD

Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md

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

A small single-center study cannot provide definitive answers to any of the important questions posed by Dr Gulbins. We agree that our data do not support the conclusion that the hybrid approach is superior to the off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) procedure. An important goal of this article is merely to provoke debate about how innovations such as this might be used to improve the results for surgical revascularization.

There is no question that differences in clinical outcomes between the 2 groups were driven by variables other . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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