In 1031 consecutive patients (839 men, 192 women) who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery at Ullev'al Hospital in the period 1988-1990, the risk of early mortality increased in a dose response pattern from increasing aortic cross-clamping time and increasing cardiopulmonary bypass time.
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