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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:22
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR TIMOTHY L. PANSEGRAU (Charlotte, NC): I enjoyed your presentation and found your results very interesting. Francis Robicsek and I reviewed the data of our group from the Carolina Heart Institute on combined versus staged carotid endarterectomy/coronary artery bypass grafting and found results that were quite different from yours. It has been our practice in patients with severe carotid artery disease and in need of coronary revascularization to perform combined procedures with both the coronary and carotid operations done by the same surgeon. Over the past 6 years, we have performed more than 125 combined operations, and much to our dismay we found an 8% rate of neurologic complications in these patients and a mortality rate of 4%. At the . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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