Off-pump multivessel coronary bypass via sternotomy is safe and effective

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1068-1072

  Puskas, John D ^a,b   Wright, Carolyn E ^a   Ronson, Russell S ^a   Brown III, W Morris ^a   Gott, John Parker ^a   Guyton, Robert A ^a  

^a Carlyle Fraser Heart Center   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032168333     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00657-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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