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To the Editor: We were surprised to read, in the article by Mangano and colleagues (Oct. 24 issue),¹ that the routine use of aspirin on the day of coronary bypass surgery is not the standard of care, given the 20-year-old evidence that starting aspirin therapy on the day of surgery results in a 50 to 70 percent reduction in early² and late³ aortocoronary vein-graft occlusion. Our double-blind, randomized trial, published previously in the Journal,² led to the definition of early treatment with aspirin as a standard of care in the first American College of Chest Physicians–National Heart, Lung, and Blood . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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