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To the Editor: Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) are both known to be highly effective in the treatment of coronary disease.^1,2 Many recent trials have compared PTCA with CABG in single-vessel as well as multivessel coronary disease. Both procedures provide good clinical results with similar five-year survival rates.^3,4

The introduction of minimally invasive coronary-artery bypass surgery permits less invasive coronary revascularization by obviating the need for cardiopulmonary bypass and sternotomy.⁵ In two selected patients with two-vessel disease, we attempted complete coronary revascularization with a combined strategy of minimally invasive surgery and balloon angioplasty ("hybrid revascularization"). . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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