The authors present a retrospective survey of 58 patients who had carotid subclavian bypass operations for “subclavian steal.” Further examination of 43 of the patients after an interval of up to 8 years revealed that in most the steal persisted despite a patent bypass. The authors present a hypothesis based on matched impedances that provides a logical explanation for these observations.
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