Off-pump coronary artery revascularization: Ideal indication for patients with porcelain aorta and calcification of great vessels

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 217-221

  Bittner, H B ^a   Savitt, M A ^a   Ching, P V ^a   Ward, H B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic diseases, surgery; Cerebrovascular incident, prevention and control; Coronary artery bypass; Coronary disease

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AGED; AORTA ANOMALY; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 0037926815     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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