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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Geneva, 24 rue Micheli-du-Crest, CH-1211 Geneva, CH-1211 Switzerland

(Email: jan.christenson@hcuge.ch).

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In the article by Takami and Masumoto [1], the hemodynamic effects of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABC) on graft flow in coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) was studied using transit-time flowmetric measurements. There are so few studies addressing this important issue, and the authors are to be congratulated for a solid and well-performed clinical study. The authors have convincingly demonstrated that IABC significantly increases global graft flow in various types of conduits, such as saphenous vein . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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