Should angiographically disease-free saphenous vein grafts be replaced at the time of redo coronary artery bypass grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-23

  Mehta, Inder D ^a   Weinberg, Joy ^a   Jones, Marc F ^a   Tellides, George ^a   Kopf, Gary S ^a   Shaw, Richard K ^a   Zaret, Barry L ^a   Elefteriades, John A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 121 FMB ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART INFARCTION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVASCULARIZATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031881749     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01192-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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