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Letters to the Editor

Re: Is the Allen test reliable enough?

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK

Received 28 February 2008; accepted 11 March 2008.

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Key Words: Radial artery • Coronary artery bypass grafting • Allen test

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We agree with Kohonen et al. [1] that a negative Allen's test is safe to harvest the radial artery. This is well known. We have harvested the radial artery in 881 patients with a negative Allen's test without postoperative hand ischaemia [2]. Barner has done the same in 1364 . . . [Full Text of this Article]