Transit-Time Flow Measurement: Letter to The Editor

Elsayed Elmistekawy

Cardiac Surgery, Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada.

DOI: 10.4236/ojts.2012.22007                

Abstract

Transit-time flow technology is considered as a quality of care in bypass surgery especially in off pump revascularization. Transit time flow measurement is a real time, direct, easy and handy tool for assessment quality of anastomosis and graft blood flow.

Keywords

Transit Time Flow; Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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