The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 125, Issue 1 , Pages 115-120 , January 2003

Appropriate timing of surgical intervention after transmural acute myocardial infarction

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

Received 14 May 2001 ,Revised 2 April 2002 ,Accepted 18 April 2002.

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    Hospital mortality versus timing of CABG. The horizontal bar represents the baseline mortality rate (2.7%) from the entire patient population.

    Hospital mortality versus timing of CABG. The horizontal bar represents the baseline mortality rate (2.7%) from the entire patient population.

 Address for reprints: Daniel C. Lee, MD, c/o Dr Ting, 630 West 168th St, P&S 17-401, New York, NY 10032 (E-mail: dcl64@columbia.edu, wt60@columbia.edu).

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PII: S0022-5223(02)73322-9

doi: 10.1067/mtc.2003.75

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 125, Issue 1 , Pages 115-120 , January 2003