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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

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Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University, Health Sciences Center, 19th Floor, Room 080, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8191

(Email: todd.rosengart@stonybrook.edu).

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The preceding study by Van Dijk and colleagues [1] is an important contribution to a growing recent literature that serves as a counterpoint to earlier articles reporting significant cognitive decline in patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery (ie, open heart surgery). Having previously demonstrated a lack of difference in cognitive decline between off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), the authors have now grouped these cohorts together and compared them with an age-matched control group without evidence of coronary disease. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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