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Prevention of internal thoracic artery spasm
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Killingbeck Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
Perioperative spasm of the internal thoracic artery is a common experience in coronary artery bypass grafting. We describe a simple method of harvesting the internal thoracic artery with improved ease of dissection that helps to prevent the arterial spasm.