Initial experience with MIDCAB grafting using the gastroepiploic artery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 431-436

  Fonger, James D ^a   Doty, John R ^b   Salazar, Jorge D ^b   Walinsky, Peter L ^b   Salomon, Neal W ^b  

^a WASHINGTON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 0032757751     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00548-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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