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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:1053. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.070
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Do Different Techniques of Left Internal Mammary Graft Harvesting Really Affect Hospital Outcome?

Mahnoosh Foroughi, MD, Seyed-Ahmad Hassantash, MD, Manoochehr Hekmat, MD, Aliasghar Bolourian, MD, Mehran Shahzamani, MD, Zahra Ansari, MD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Modarres Hospital, Saadat-Abad, Tehran, Iran

(Email: mahnoosh.foroughi@gmail.com).

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the article by Onorati and colleagues [1], who tried to analyze transit-time flow and in-hospital results of pedicled vs skeletonized left internal mammary artery (LIMA) in first-time myocardial revascularization. Although we are impressed with the results, we ponder over a few queries that arise in our minds.

Because the study is based on the comparison between pedicled vs skeletonized LIMA, the study needs to be designed such that the myocardial territory nourished by the left anterior descending artery (presumably to which all LIMAs have . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Francesco Onorati, Giuseppe Santarpino, and Attilio Renzulli
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