Blood flow pattern and anastomotic compliance for interrupted versus continuous coronary bypass grafts

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 65-70

  Gerdisch, Marc ^a   Hinkamp, Thomas ^b   Ainsworth, Stephen D ^c  

^a CENTRAL DUPAGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Coalescent Surgical ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GEOMETRY; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0038664147     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/hsf.740     Document Type: Article

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