Usefulness of flow reserve in the left internal mammary artery to determine graft patency to the left anterior descending coronary artery

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1157-1163

  Voudris, Vassilis ^a   Athanassopoulos, George ^a   Vassilikos, Vassilis ^a   Avramides, Dimitris ^a   Manginas, Athanassios ^a   Michalis, Alkis ^a   Cokkinos, Dennis V ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033560886     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00051-X     Document Type: Article

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