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Assessing flow during minimally invasive coronary artery bypass: an Allen's test equivalent
1Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 13, 1999
Abstract:
The use of a provocative test to elicit selective regional myocardial dysfunction (detected with intraoperative TEE) as a method to infer adequacy of regional myocardial perfusion following MIDCAB is described. We liken the similarity of this technique to the originally described "Allens test" for determination of collateral blood flow adequacy.