Intracoronary artery shunt: An assessment of possible coronary artery wall damage

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1160-1162

  Gerosa, Gino ^a,b   Bottio, Tomaso ^a   Valente, Marialuisa ^a   Thiene, Gaetano ^a   Casarotto, Dino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b Ist di Chirurgia Cardiovascolare   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVICE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPICARDIUM; HEART DILATATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037674949     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2003.163     Document Type: Article

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