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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited Commentary

Department of Anesthesiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9202

(Email: philip.greilich@utsouthwestern.edu).

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Eltzschig and colleagues [1] are to be commended for providing the cardiac surgery community with compelling evidence for the benefits of intraoperative TEE. The experience summarized in this report of 12,566 patients validates what most of us have experienced since TEE was introduced to the cardiac surgical suite. The increase in TEE utilization (35% to 84%) over the 15-year span in this study mirrors that of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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