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Competitive Flow and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts

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We herein review the current evidence on the effect of chronic native competitive flow on coronary artery bypass patency and function and provide an overview of the methods to evaluate competitive flow.

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Gaudino, M. et al. (2016). Competitive Flow and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts. In: Ţintoiu, I., Underwood, M., Cook, S., Kitabata, H., Abbas, A. (eds) Coronary Graft Failure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26515-5_25

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