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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:2004. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.02.074
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Danny Chu, MD, Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030

(Email: dchu@bcm.tmc.edu).

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To the Editor:

We thank Aboyans and colleagues [1] for their interest in our article [2], and appreciate the editor for giving us the opportunity to reply. Aboyans and colleagues elegantly presented their findings of the association between subclinical peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and survival in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) [3]. With an actuarial follow-up period of 4.4 years (range, 0 to 65.1 months), the authors concluded that symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with PAD had poorer long-term prognosis than those without PAD who underwent CABG. Furthermore, they concluded that the poor prognosis of PAD patients undergoing CABG . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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