Do internal mammary artery side-branches have the potential for haemodynamically significant flow steal?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-254

  Gaudino, Mario ^a   Serricchio, Michele ^a   Tondi, Paolo ^a   Glieca, Franco ^a   Bruno, Piergiorgio ^a   Possati, Gianfederico ^a   Pola, Paolo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collaterals; Flow steal; Mammary artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX WALL; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0032955365     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(99)00021-4     Document Type: Article

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