Early results of transmyocardial revascularization with a holmium laser

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 700-704

  Milano, Aldo ^a   Pratali, Stefano ^a   Tartarini, Giuseppe ^a   Mariotti, Rita ^a   De Carlo, Marco ^a   Paterni, Giovanni ^a   Boni, Giuseppe ^a   Bortolotti, Uberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032033046     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01380-5     Document Type: Article

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