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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:79-80
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe St, Meyer 100, Baltimore, MD21287

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Andréll and colleagues document an important relationship between preoperative magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities and risk of adverse neurologic outcomes in high-risk patients randomized to either conventional coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) or spinal cord stimulation. A principal finding from their study is that patients who undergo CABG are more likely than the spinal cord stimulation patients to have adverse neurologic outcomes, regardless of whether or not they have magnetic resonance imaging evidence of preoperative . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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