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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;61:1712-1713
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited Commentary

Invited Commentary

Ivor F. Galvin, FRCSI

University of Otago, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

See also page 1708.

The authors of this article have demonstrated that double internal mammary artery grafting with the right artery passing through the transverse sinus is a feasible approach, but one has to question whether in general it is advisable. I have misgivings regarding the prudence of increasing the complexity of the coronary operation when many more simple and proven alternatives already exist. As someone who is not complacent and, I believe, in the majority, and who tends to regard coronary artery operations as palliative rather than curative, and who performs coronary artery operations with a low mortality routinely using the left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery and vein grafts to other vessels requiring grafting, and who achieves good results, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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