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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;137:785
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Preoperative and intraoperative considerations for radial artery anomalies in coronary artery bypass grafting

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the recent description of an unusual radial artery anomaly by Chong and De Souza.¹ A more superior radial graft patency over the saphenous vein is confirmed via a randomized controlled trial and is likely to encourage its use as a conduit of choice after the left internal thoracic artery (LITA).² We regularly use the radial artery as a conduit in our practice and have not encountered such an anomaly in our experience with more than 900 patients to date . . . [Full Text of this Article]