%0 Journal Article %T The price of innovation: a primer on high risk, high reward surgery %A Bribriesco, Alejandro %A Ahmad, Usman %A Raja, Siva %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2017 %B 2017 %9 %! The price of innovation: a primer on high risk, high reward surgery %K %X Difficult problems stimulate the development of novel therapies which more often than not are high-risk due to the nature of the disease process. Rare diseases offer few opportunities to refine a technique or protocol. Diseases that leave patients in critical and unstable conditions leave little margin for error. %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/16984 %V 9 %N 11 %P 4323-4324 %@ 2077-6624