Intracoronary ultrasound-guided CABG in patients with angiographically noncritical lesions

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 375-379

  Pirolo, John S ^a   Fredi, Joseph L ^a   Shuman, Todd A ^a   Alford, William C ^a   Ball, Stephen K ^a   Burrus, George R ^a   Coltharp, William H ^a   Glassford Jr , David M ^a   Hoff, Steven J ^a   Lea IV, John W ^a   Petracek, Michael R ^a   Starkey, Thomas D ^a   Stoney, William S ^a  

^a SAINT THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0030828448     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00549-3     Document Type: Article

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