Heparin-bonded circuits improve clinical outcomes in patients undergoing CABG: A new 'gold standard'?

ACC Current Journal Review

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 45-48

  Aldea, Gabriel S ^a   Shemin, Richard J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032031879     PISSN: 10621458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1062-1458(98)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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