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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:684-685
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

New technology

Invited commentary

Lishan Aklog, MD, David H. Adams, MD

Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 1190 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029, USA

e-mail: david.adams@mountsinai.org

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Dr Borst discloses that he has a financial relationship with Medtronic.

 

Early efforts at beating heart surgery were decidedly low-tech, utilizing at most a simple stabilizer, a few pericardial sutures, and conventional anastomotic techniques [1]. These critical early steps represented more of a philosophical advance and paradigm shift than a technologic breakthrough. More importantly, a door was opened, and the imagination of surgeons and engineers were stimulated to develop new enabling technologies that would reinvent coronary artery . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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