Eight years experience using the inferior epigastric artery for myocardial revascularization

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 243-247

  Puig, Luiz B ^a   Sousa, Anselmo H S ^a   Cividanes, Gil V L ^a   Souto, Rosangela C M ^a   Bittencourt, Agamenon H ^a   Oppi, Egle C ^a   Kopel, Leonildo ^a   Ramirez, Jose A F ^a  

^a Real Benemerita Sociedade P   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anterior interventricular branch; Arterial graft; Diagonal branch; Inferior epigastric artery; Myocardial revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 0031037575     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(96)01054-8     Document Type: Article

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