Midterm clinical and anglographic results of radial artery grafts used for myocardial revascularization

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1015-1021

  Possati, G ^a   Gaudino, M ^a   Alessandrini, F ^a   Luciani, N ^a   Glieca, F ^a   Trani, C ^a   Cellini, C ^a   Canosa, C ^a   Di Sciascio, G ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DILTIAZEM; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; SEROTONIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; SCAVENGER;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOSPASM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTONIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0031593444     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(98)70054-6     Document Type: Article

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