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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:513-514
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Danny Chu, MD, FACS, Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Tex

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We thank Akowuah and colleagues for their interest regarding our article1Go and appreciate the opportunity to reply.

The mean difference in the number of vein grafts between the two groups of patients was indeed 0.8, and the number of internal thoracic artery grafts was the same in both groups. It is certainly possible that our study committed a type II statistical error in that we were not able to detect small differences in long-term survival between the groups. Nevertheless, as we mentioned in article,1Go our study was designed to detect a long-term survival difference of at least . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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