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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;127:1534-1535
© 2004 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the editor

Safe bilateral use of skeletonized internal thoracic artery in patients with diabetes

Hitoshi Hirose, MD, FICSa,b, Atsushi Amano, MDa

a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
b Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the article by Peterson and coworkers1 on skeletonization of bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafts and lowered risk of sternal infection in patients with diabetes. Peterson and coworkers1 reviewed 115 patients with diabetes undergoing bilateral ITA grafting and compared the incidence of postoperative sternal infection between the skeletonized ITA group and the pedicled ITA group. The study concluded that the skeletonization of the ITA would reduce the incidences of both superficial and deep sternal infections.

The most important point of the skeletonization of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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