Comparison of flow capacities of arterial and venous grafts for coronary artery bypass grafting: Evaluation with exercise thallium-201 single-photon emission tomography

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1487-1493

  Taki, Junichi ^a   Ichikawa, Akihiro ^a   Nakajima, Kenichi ^a   Kawasuji, Michio ^a   Tonami, Norihisa ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafting; Flow reserve; Thallium

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEART; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031448966     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050178     Document Type: Article

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