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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:436
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited Commentary

Hisayoshi Suma, MDa

a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura 247, Japan

e-mail: hisasuma@netlaputa.ne.jp

Invited commentary

Doctor Fonger and colleagues challenged the use of the right gastroepiploic artery (GEA) graft on 66 right coronaries and 8 anterior descending arteries under beating heart without cardiopulmonary bypass through a small epigastric incision and obtained suboptimal result in terms of mortality, morbidity and graft patency.

On the other hand, we . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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