Intraoperative evaluation of coronary anastomosis by transit-time ultrasonic flow measurement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1446-1450

  Morota, Tetsuro ^a,b   Duhaylongsod, Francis G ^a   Burfeind, William R ^a   Huang, Ching Tsorng ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; SYSTOLE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; MALE; PULSATILE FLOW; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SWINE; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0036263643     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03505-1     Document Type: Article

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