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Introduction Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the preferred management strategy for multi-vessel or high-risk coronary artery disease,1 and involves the surgical bypass of occluded coronary arteries. Affected vessels may be bypassed using venous conduits, such as the saphenous vein graft (SVG), or arterial conduits like the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) and the radial artery. An established complication of the SVG conduit is re-stenosis or occlusion secondary to malignant atherosclerosis,2 and, despite recent evidence supporting enhanced durability of radial arterial conduits compared with SVG,3,4 a large proportion of patients

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