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work_e54xohichratva7oalbcqy2maa	Vaughn A. Starnes	Presidential address: An evolving discipline	2005.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	4497	341	64	believing our specialty has seen its golden years come and gone. specialty is in trouble because coronary artery bypass surgery is down 25%. and, if needed, adjuvant therapy offers cure to patients with lung cancer. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery ● Volume 129, Number 3 483 accepted therapy for critically ill patients with end-stage A barometer of this excitement is measured by the increasing numbers of entering thoracic residents who are choosing thoracic surgery as their subspecialty. number of patients referred for coronary bypass operations. During the past year, the number of coronary artery bypass persuade the cardiologist to look at cooperative trials comparing, for example, bypass surgery versus stenting in patients with 3-vessel disease and diminished ventricular function. stented patients had 2.5 times the mortality seen in those patients having bypass surgery. As surgeons, we can tell the patient about the restenosis rate and coronary-artery bypass surgery.	./cache/work_e54xohichratva7oalbcqy2maa.pdf	./txt/work_e54xohichratva7oalbcqy2maa.txt