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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, N-0027 Norway

(Email: ivar.risnes@rikshospitalet.no).

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Krishnamoorthy and colleagues [1] present an interesting and well-written article based on a prospective and randomized study comparing two wound closure techniques on postoperative leg complication rates after cardiac surgery.

Morbidity related to impaired leg wound healing associated with traditional saphenous vein harvesting for coronary artery bypass grafting has often caused problems for the patients. As stated in the article, such effects . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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