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Letters to the Editor

Reply to Dashwood et al.

2nd Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Silesia, Ziolowa 47, 40-635 Katowice, Poland

Received 18 March 2008; accepted 19 March 2008.

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Key Words: Internal thoracic artery • ADRF • CABG • Perivascular tissue • Nitric oxide • Saphenous vein

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We thank Dashwood et al. for their interest and comments regarding our manuscript [1]. We used to be enthusiastic regarding ITA skeletonization but with growing awareness of the active role of perivascular tissue we are becoming less and less so [2]. Our study showed that the factor responsible for anticontractile properties of perivascular tissue (PVT) . . . [Full Text of this Article]