Stenting or bypass surgery for unprotected left main coronary artery disease-still a long rally to go

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Editorial

Tzu-Hsien Tsai et al. J Thorac Dis. 2016 Sep.

. 2016 Sep;8(9):2292-2295.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.08.42.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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