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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;88:1724-1725. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.01.010
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Is There Any Prospective, Randomized Study to Confirm Significantly Better Angiographic Radial Artery Conduit Patency Compared With Saphenous Vein Graft Patency?

Dusko Nezic, MD, PhD, Aleksandar Knezevic, MD, BcS, Slobodan Micovic, MD, Miomir Jovic, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac Surgery I, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Milana Tepica 1, Belgrade, 11000 Serbia

(Email: nezic@eunet.rs).

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To the Editor:

We read the article by Zacharias and colleagues [1] regarding the late results of conventional versus all-arterial revascularization based on internal thoracic and radial artery (RA) grafting with great interest. Although this is an outstanding article, we disagree with the authors' statement that several prospective and retrospective reports [2–4] have shown superior RA patency compared with saphenous vein grafts (SVG).

In the retrospective study, Zacharias and associates [2] used propensity scoring. Matched patients had essentially identical demographics, comorbidities, severity of coronary disease, and operative data. Although the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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