Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in High-Risk Patients. Late Follow-Up with Assessment of Left Internal Mammary Artery Graft Patency and Flow by Exercise Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiography

Vascular

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 389-395

  Sunderdiek, U ^a   Kalweit, G A ^b   Marx, R ^c   Schipke, J D ^a   Gams, E ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Heart Center Voelklingen   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

beating heart surgery; coronary bypass surgery; Doppler echocardiography; high risk patients; minimally invasive cardiac surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADAPTATION SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY RISK; DESCENDING AORTA; DIASTOLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART CARCINOMA; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESTENOSIS; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042235671     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721090301100510     Document Type: Article

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