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

Letter to the editor

Reply to the Editor

Mark D. Peterson, MD, Michael A. Borger, MD, PhD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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We thank Hirose and Amano for their comments, and we are encouraged that they report a similarly low risk of sternal wound infection in patients with diabetes who received bilateral skeletonized internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafts. Several additional studies have evaluated . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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