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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, PO Box 954, Eltham, VIC 3095, Australia

(Email: alistair.royse@unimelb.edu.au).

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Ever since Carpentier abandoned the radial artery in 1974 [1] and its revival by Acar in 1992 [2], there has been strong belief that arterial grafts in general, and radial artery grafts in particular, fail due to acute spasm postoperatively. To combat this assumed pathology, the postoperative use of vasodilators was considered of paramount importance for many years, and they continue to be considered very important by some, even today. Certainly, it is still widely believed that vasoconstrictors should be avoided in the setting of arterial . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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