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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2010;140:723-724
© 2010 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

The future of cardiac surgery

Octavio E. Pajaro, MD, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala

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To the Editor:

What is the future of cardiac surgery? This question undoubtedly brings to mind images of fancy new technology, robots, stents, lasers, and other minimally invasive or futuristic techniques. However, the real question that our specialty needs to address is this: How should cardiac surgery deal with the fact that technology changes rapidly, that the potential therapeutic options for patients increase faster than prospective trials can evaluate them, and that each year patients who undergo cardiac surgery . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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