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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom

(Email: bala1log@doctors.org.uk).

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Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) ideally mandates the use of objective technology to confirm graft patency. With the increasing use of off-pump CABG and arterial grafting, both of which are considered technically demanding, interest in intraoperative graft patency assessment has progressively evolved in recent years. Several qualitative and quantitative methods have been used to detect intraoperative graft failure. The most common quantitative technique in current clinical use is transit time flowmetry (TTFM).

D’Ancona and colleagues [1] have described the . . . [Full Text of this Article]