Individualized surgical strategy for the reduction of stroke risk in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1246-1253

  Gaudino, Mario ^a,b   Glieca, Franco ^a   Alessandrini, Francesco ^a   Cellini, Carlo ^a   Luciani, Nicola ^a   Pragliola, Claudio ^a   Schiavello, Rocco ^a   Possati, Gianfederico ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 0033058894     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00151-4     Document Type: Article

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