The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 124, Issue 4 , Pages 698-707 , October 2002

Does off-pump coronary surgery reduce morbidity and mortality?

Read at the Eighty-first Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 6-9, 2001.

Received 15 May 2001 ,Revised 12 October 2001 ,Accepted 24 October 2001.

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☆ Partial funding of nursing personnel for data collection of the off-pump cases was provided by Guidant Corporation, which otherwise had no input into the analyses and did not review or endorse the results reported in this study.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Joseph F. Sabik, MD, The Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave, Desk F25, Cleveland, OH 44195 (E-mail: sabikj@ccf.org).

PII: S0022-5223(02)00141-1

doi: 10.1067/mtc.2002.121975

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 124, Issue 4 , Pages 698-707 , October 2002

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