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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;134:1380-1381
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Severe vasospasm in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: A difficult clinical problem

Pankaj Saxena, MCh, DNB, Igor E. Konstantinov, MD, PhD, Mark A.J. Newman, FRACS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the article published by Schena and associates.1Go They have highlighted the importance of vasospasm in the nongrafted right coronary artery (RCA) without any hemodynamically significant disease in a patient undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (OPCAB) to the diseased left-sided vessels. We2Go have had a similar experience in which initially vasospasm developed in . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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