A no-touch technique for calcified ascending aorta during coronary artery surgery

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 120-123

  Akpinar, Belhan ^a   Güden, Mustafa ^a   Sanisoǧlu, Ilhan ^a   Konuralp, Cüneyt ^b,c   Yilmaz, Oǧuz ^a   Sönmez, Bingür ^a  

^a FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Turkey   (Turkey)

^c ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic diseases complications; Calcinosis; Cardiac surgical procedures adverse effects; Cerebrovascular disorders etiology; Coronary artery bypass methods; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0031746713     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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