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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:1253
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Increased perioperative mortality in elective coronary artery bypass grafting after previous percutaneous coronary intervention

Walter J. Gomes, MD, PhD

Cardiovascular Surgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina–Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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To the Editor:

The article by Bonaros and colleagues,1Go which clearly establishes the relationship between increased perioperative complications and mortality in patients with previous elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) who underwent further elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), reinforces the hypothesis stemming from pathophysiologic changes elicited by stent insertion.2Go The study findings are very remarkable, and some additional explanations for these outcomes are offered herein.

The authors studied 306 consecutive patients who underwent . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Nikolaos Bonaros, Dominik Wiedemann, Thomas Schachner, and Alfred Kocher
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2009 138: 1253-1254. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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