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To the Editor: In the clinical trial reported by Diegeler et al. (Aug. 22 issue),¹ surgery was much more effective than stenting with regard to the prospectively established end point of a major adverse cardiac event (which occured in 31 percent of the patients in the stenting group vs. 15 percent in the surgery group, P=0.02) and with regard to freedom from angina (79 percent in the surgery group vs. 62 percent in the stenting group, P=0.03). Nonetheless, the authors conclude that "stenting yields excellent short-term results." Are they referring to a time point earlier than six months? If so, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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