Harvest injury of the internal mammary artery can lead to early thrombosis, which may be difficult to differentiate from atherosclerosis or harvest spasm in some cases. We describe the efficacy of intraoperative evaluation of the internal mammary artery by power Doppler imaging during off-pump or minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting.
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