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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:911-912
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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^a Thoraxcentre, Groningen University Hospital, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands

e-mail: p.w.boonstra@thorax.azg.nl

Invited commentary

The advantages of off-pump coronary surgery, with respect to conventional coronary surgery with the pump, are the avoidance of the damaging side-effects of the pump and the avoidance of the midline sternotomy, like in the left anterior small thoracotomy (LAST) operation. However until recently, this technique has been limited to one-vessel disease. Nowadays also patients with two- or three-vessel disease can benefit from the advantages of off-pump coronary surgery, for example by combining the LAST operation with angioplasty for revascularization of the remaining coronary arteries called "the hybrid revascularization." The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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