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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:810-811
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original article: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

William S. Weintraub, MD, Michael K. Banbury, MD

Christiana Care Health Services, 4755 Ogletown-Stanton Rd, Newark, DE 19718

(Email: wweintraub@christianacare.org; mbanbury@christianacare.org).

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Despite decades of progress in preventing and treating vascular disease, it remains the most frequent cause of death in most countries of the world, both developed and developing [1, 2]. As part of the overall care of outpatients, coronary surgery has been critical in relieving angina pectoris, and in selected patients, prolonging life [3, 4]. In assessing the outcome after coronary surgery, it is critical to follow-up patients for long periods of time.

Gao and colleagues [5] have contributed to our understanding of coronary surgery by analyzing the outcome of 20,835 patients undergoing isolated coronary surgery between 1968 and 2003. The authors note an overall operative mortality of 2.5%, which has remained relatively constant since 1974. With 84% follow-up, survival at 5, 15, 25, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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