Functional assessment of disease-free saphenous vein grafts at redo coronary artery bypass grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1183-1187

  Bilfinger, Thomas V ^a   Vosswinkel, James A ^a   Rialas, Christos M ^a   Krukenkamp, Irvin B ^a   Stefano, George B ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 0034056660     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01578-7     Document Type: Article

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