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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Divisions of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, and the Section of Adult Cardiac Surgery, The Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030

(Email: fbakaeen@bcm.edu).

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This study by Okada and colleagues [1] presents a large (n = 200) institutional experience with total aortic arch replacement (TAR) performed to treat nondissecting aneurysm. The 30-day mortality for the entire cohort was remarkably low at 0.5%, and hospital mortality was 3.5%. The authors examined the surgical outcomes of TAR with and without coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Unadjusted outcomes for the patients who underwent both TAR and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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