Late vasospasm of the inferior epigastric artery graft

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1800-1801

  Ichikawa, Yukio ^a   Kajiwara, Hirokazu ^a   Hamada, Toshiyuki ^a   Yamazaki, Ichiya ^a   Jin, Yasuyuki ^a   Sato, Sunao ^a  

^a Kanagawa Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases Center Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; TRAPIDIL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOSPASM;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VASOSPASM; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033032547     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00330-6     Document Type: Article

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