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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:83
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Invited commentary

Invited commentary

^a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, One Clinic Center, 9500 Euclid Ave, F-25, Cleveland, OH 44195-5066, USA

e-mail: mccartp@ccf.org

Any cardiac surgeon who has performed a left internal mammary artery (IMA) to left anterior descending (LAD) anastomosis on a beating heart through an anterior minithoracotomy knows in his soul that the patency rates will not be as high as for conventional surgery. Many have commented that what has been described from the podium as a simple and easy operation, was exaggerated and misleading. Wiklund and colleagues are to be congratulated for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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