Effect of distal stenosis of internal thoracic artery bypass grafts on longitudinal phasic blood flow velocity characteristics

American Heart Journal

Volumn 138, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 468-476

  Koyama, J ^a   Owa, M ^a   Asakawa, K ^a   Hikita, H ^a   Ohkubo, K ^a   Ikeda, S ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIASTOLE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0032822521     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(99)70149-3     Document Type: Article

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