Angiographic and clinical outcomes following acute infarct angioplasty on saphenous vein grafts

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1018-1021

  Watson, Paul S ^a   Hadjipetrou, Peter ^a   Cox, Stephen V ^a   Pyne, Christopher T ^a   Gossman, David E ^a   Piemonte, Thomas C ^a   Eisenhauer, Andrew C ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RECURRENCE; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 0032930667     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00007-7     Document Type: Article

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