Should the 3-year follow-up of FAME-3 trial guide clinical practice? A critical appraisal

Affiliations

• ¹ Cardiovascular Surgery Discipline, Department of Surgery, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Department of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
• ³ University of Pisa and Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
• ⁴ McGill University Health Centre, Centre for Health Outcomes Research (CORE), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
• ⁶ University Center Assis Gurgacz Foundation, Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil.
• ⁷ University Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, CHUV-Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.