Dr. Robert Michler, chairman of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center, said the data should act as a "wake-up call" for physicians, surgeons and patients.

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Consider a case report in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery of a three-year-old girl who fell into an icy fishpond in a small Austrian town in the Alps.

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Fernando, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston Medical Center.

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Originally I was focused on getting a job in women's health, as that was my background and I was passionate about it, but I was offered a position on the thoracic surgery team at Duke.

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An analysis of 10 studies involving a total of 393 patients, published earlier this year in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, found between 26% and 83% of patients getting the new surgery were able to stop taking proton-pump inhibitors.

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The machine is being tried for more applications such as thoracic procedures, neck surgery and oral cancer.

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The paper is based on data from Medicare beneficiaries included in an American College of Cardiology Foundation registry of patients who got angioplasty and stent procedures and in another database on bypass surgery maintained by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

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