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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:1195-1196
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

The answer is an intra-aortic balloon pump

Yoshiyuki Takami, MD, Hiroshi Masumoto, MD

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kasugai Municipal Hospital, 1-1-1 Takagi-cho, Kasugai City, 486-8510 Japan

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To the Editor:

We have presented an article1 in the Journal with a case of wrong anastomosis of the left internal thoracic artery (LITA) with the cardiac vein that could not be detected with transit flow measurement. The LITA graft anastomosed with the cardiac vein demonstrated biphasic and diastolic-dominant flow, forming a trapezoid-shaped waveform, which was quite similar to the flow of the patent LITA graft to the left coronary artery.

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