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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:1723
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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See also page 1714.

From this critical analysis of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting and preoperative noninvasive carotid artery screening, D'Agostino and associates have identified risk factors that predict the presence of significant (defined as greater than 50%) carotid artery stenosis. With few exceptions, they are identical to those reported in other studies of large populations of patients that used preoperative noninvasive carotid artery screening to detect carotid . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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