Flow dynamics in internal thoracic artery grafts 10 years after coronary artery bypass grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 131-137

  Ichikawa, Yukio ^a   Kajiwara, Hirokazu ^b   Noishiki, Yasuharu ^b   Yamazaki, Ichiya ^b   Yamamoto, Kenji ^b   Kosuge, Takayuki ^b   Sato, Sunao ^b   Takanashi, Yoshinori ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0036146244     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03206-4     Document Type: Article

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