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To the Editor: In their letter (May 15 issue)¹ on minimally invasive coronary-artery byass surgery,² Friedrich and colleagues advocate what they call a "new approach to coronary revascularization," in which revascularization of two-vessel disease is achieved with a combined strategy of minimally invasive surgery for one vessel and balloon angioplasty for the other (so-called hybrid revascularization).

In fact, this approach has been used in many centers, including my own, for more than two years, since it is intuitively appealing. However, I believe that the strategy advocated by Friedrich and coworkers, in which the minimally invasive surgery is carried out first . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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