Assessment of left mammary artery grafts (LIMA) to left anterior descending artery (LAD) after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting by color doppler

Vascular

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-51

  Driever, R ^a   Fuchs, S ^a   Schmitz, E ^a   Vetter, H O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiac surgery; color Doppler; coronary graft; internal mammary artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TRANSDUCER; VELOCITY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; SYSTOLE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0036154489     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721090201000112     Document Type: Article

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