The use of the radial artery for coronary artery bypass grafting improves long-term outcomes: And now what?

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¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY. Electronic address: mfg9004@med.cornell.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Center for Innovation and Outcomes Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
³ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Schulich Heart Centre, Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mario Gaudino et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Nov.

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. 2021 Nov;162(5):1548-1552.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.09.143. Epub 2020 Nov 10.

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY. Electronic address: mfg9004@med.cornell.edu.
² Department of Surgery, Center for Innovation and Outcomes Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
³ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Schulich Heart Centre, Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Keywords: CABG; arterial grafting; radial artery.

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