Optimizing revascularization of complex, proximal left anterior descending coronary stenoses: The clinical and financial impacts of catheter-based, median sternotomy, and port-access approaches

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 289-293

  Watson, Daniel R ^a   Taylor, Janice A ^a  

^a RIVERSIDE METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036400269     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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