Rapid recovery after coronary artery bypass grafting: Is the elderly patient eligible?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 634-639

  Ott, Richard A ^a   Gutfinger, Dan E ^a   Miller, Mark P ^a   Alimadadian, Hossein ^a   Tanner, Teresa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCAINAMIDE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0030933331     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)01098-3     Document Type: Article

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