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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado at Denver, Academic Office 1, L15, 12631 East 17th Ave, C310, PO Box 6511, Aurora, CO 80045

(Email: joseph.cleveland@uchsc.edu).

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This single center observational study by Navia and colleagues [1] describes their experience with off-pump total arterial coronary artery revascularization. The results presented are indeed impressive. These surgeons report a perioperative mortality of less than 1%, with similarly low rates of major complications and graft patency that exceeds 90%. Medium-term survival of this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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