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A technique for evaluating competitive flow for intraoperative decision making in coronary artery surgery
Gil Bolotin1, Alan P Kypson, L Wiley Nifong
1Department of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. boloting@mail.ecu.edu
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 12, 2003
Abstract:
The effect of native coronary competitive flow on the patency of arterial and saphenous vein grafts is controversial. We use a simple intraoperative technique to evaluate competitive flow that allows us to make informed intraoperative decisions regarding anastomotic quality, vessel runoff, and competing native coronary blood flow.