Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular DiseaseOff-pump coronary artery bypass grafting provides complete revascularization with reduced myocardial injury, transfusion requirements, and length of stay: A prospective randomized comparison of two hundred unselected patients undergoing off-pump versus conventional coronary artery bypass grafting☆,☆☆,★
Read at the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Washington, DC, May 5-8, 2002.
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Supported by grants from Medtronic, Inc, Minneapolis, Minn, and The Carlyle Fraser Heart Center Foundation, Atlanta, Ga.
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Address for reprints: John D. Puskas, MD, MSc, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery (Cardiothoracic), Emory University School of Medicine, Crawford Long Hospital, Sixth Floor, Medical Office Tower, 550 Peachtree St, NE, Atlanta, GA 30308 (E-mail: [email protected]).
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