Noninvasive functional assessment of left internal mammary artery grafts by transcutaneous Doppler echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 403-408

  Rombaut, E ^a   Vantrimpont, P ^a   Gurne, O ^a   Chenu, P ^a   Schroeder, E ^a   Buche, M ^a   Louagie, Y ^a   Eucher, P ^a   Marchandise, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE;

EID: 0031976276     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(98)70018-5     Document Type: Article

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