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When performing a coronary artery bypass operation, no surgeon will hesitate nowadays to include all branches with a stenosis of 70% or more in thè revascularization procedure. However, when vessels with a moderate stenosis, i.e., around 50%, are present, some questions arise. A 50% stenosis is hemodynamically unimportant and it. is improbable, that it will ever give rise to anginal complaints or myocardial infarction.
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Huysmans, H.A., Vermeulen, F.E.E., Bruschke, A.V.G. (1979). Complete Revascularization, Including Moderate Stenosis?. In: Roskamm, H., Schmuziger, M. (eds) Coronary Heart Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67295-8_11
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