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- Cardiac surgery
- minimally invasive
- surgery-coronary bypass
- surgery-valve
- mitral regurgitation
- cardiopulmonary bypass
- lung injury
- angina treatment
- aortic root disease
- prosthetic heart valves
- mitral regurgitation
- aortic valve disease
- surgery CHD
- risk stratification
- mitral valve
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
To the Editor We congratulate Grant et al1 on their multi-centre study on the impact of endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH) on clinical outcomes. Their results echoed nicely with the studies by Dacey et al2 and Ouzounian et al3 who showed EVH is not an independent predictor of inhospital or mid-term adverse outcomes. However, it is interesting to note that only 12.4% of their studied population received EVH. The study also highlighted the …
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