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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2004;26:1229
© 2004 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Safety of off-pump coronary artery surgery: no more skepticism please!

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill NHS Trust, Dalnair Street, Glasgow G3 8SJ, Scotland, UK

Received 23 August 2004; accepted 1 September 2004.

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Stamou and colleagues [1], and the editorial staff of EJCTS, deserve credit for carrying out and publishing results of the first-ever propensity matched score analysis comparing solely the operative mortality rate after off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) and conventional coronary artery bypass grafting. Their results suggest that in unselected patients with multivessel disease a lower operative mortality rate can be achieved with the OPCAB technique compared with the conventional on-pump approach. This finding is without doubt . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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