Assessment of left internal mammary artery graft patency by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 511-516

  El Masry, Magdy M ^a   Salama, Mai M ^a   Darwish, Ahmed Z ^a   El Aziz, Osama Abd ^a  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Graft; Internal mammary; Patency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0036830267     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960251107     Document Type: Article

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