Restoration of patency of left internal mammary artery graft with progression of the underlying left anterior descending coronary artery disease

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 213-215

  Shamoon, Fayez E ^a   Goldstein, Jonathan ^a   Haft, Jacob I ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass graft; Left anterior descending coronary artery; Left internal mammary artery; Patency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT;

EID: 0030825142     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199710)42:2<213::AID-CCD28>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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