Postoperative changes in angiographically normal saphenous vein coronary bypass grafts using intravascular ultrasound

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 57-60

  Higuchi, Yoshiharu ^a,b   Hirayama, Atsushi ^b   Shimizu, Masahiko ^b   Sakakibara, Tetsuo ^b   Kodama, Kazuhisa ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compensatory remodeling; Intimal thickening; Vein graft disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STAGING;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0036969731     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003800200044     Document Type: Article

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