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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:1339-1340
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Are composite Y-grafts able to fully respond to the left coronary system flow demand early after coronary bypass graft?

Massimo Lemma, MD, Andrea Mangini, MD, Guido Gelpi, MD, Andrea Innorta, MD, Amedeo Spina, MD, Carlo Antona, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, "L. Sacco" Hospital, Milan, Italy

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the paper by Sakaguchi and colleagues [1]. The authors retrospectively compared the coronary flow reserve (FR) and the regional myocardial blood flow after coronary artery bypass grafting using arterial composite Y-grafts (22 patients) or independent arterial grafts (13 patients). The authors studied their patients 2 weeks after the operation at rest with positron emission tomography. Dipyridamole was used to get maximal hyperemic blood flow. Although regional baseline myocardial blood flow did not differ between the two groups, the coronary . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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