Choice of graft material at primary CABG influences cardiac death and reintervention rates

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 141-146

  Christenson, Jan T ^a,b   Vala, D ^a   Faidutti, B ^a   Kalangos, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospitals   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conduits; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Graft material; Internal thoracic artery; Long term result; Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; Redo coronary artery bypass grafting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0036044696     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063246     Document Type: Article

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