Graft of choice to right coronary system in left-sided bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-92

  Lev Ran, Oren ^a,b   Mohr, Rephael ^a   Uretzky, Gideon ^a   Pevni, Dmitry ^a   Locker, Chaim ^a   Paz, Yosef ^a   Shapira, Itzhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STROKE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037232524     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04158-9     Document Type: Article

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