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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:873-874
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Hendrick Barner, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, One Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza, Suite 3108 Queeny Tower, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA

barnerh@msnotes.wustl.edu

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The authors report a low perioperative mortality and myocardial infarction incidence in a large series of patients having left anterior descending artery (LAD) endarterectomy. We and they have reviewed recent experience with coronary endarterectomy to place it in perspective with transmyocardial laser revascularization and the experimental methodology of induced angiogenesis.

Conservative indications for endarterectomy of no vessel lumen or failure to pass a 1-mm probe were used and are similar . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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