Off-pump complete revascularization through a left lateral thoracotomy (thoraCAB): The first 200 cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-49

  Srivastava, Sudhir P ^a   Patel, Kirit N ^a   Skantharaja, Rajaratnam ^a   Barrera, Reyna ^a   Nanayakkara, Diana ^a   Srivastava, Vishwa ^a  

^a Cardiac Surgical Associates of West Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCENDING AORTA; AXILLA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FREEZING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIPPLE; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART-LUNG MACHINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0037999996     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00034-1     Document Type: Article

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