High-dose isosorbide dinitrate for myocardial revascularization with composite arterial grafts

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 382-387

  Gurevitch, Jacob ^a,b   Miller, Hylton I ^a   Shapira, Itzhak ^a   Kramer, Amir ^a   Paz, Yosef ^a   Matsa, Menachem ^a   Mohr, Rephael ^a   Yakirevich, Vladimir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; RADIAL ARTERY; STOMACH; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0031059457     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)00923-X     Document Type: Article

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