Mechanical properties of porcine and human arteries: Implications for coronary anastomotic connectors

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 58-64

  Van Andel, Carolien J ^b   Pistecky, Peter V ^b   Borst, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SWINE; THICKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CADAVER; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CORONARY VESSELS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0038337942     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00263-7     Document Type: Article

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