Mid-term results of combined transmyocardial laser revascularization and coronary artery bypass

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1163-1166

  Loubani, Mahmoud ^a   Chin, Derek ^a   Leverment, Joseph N ^a   Galiñanes, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0141786642     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00829-4     Document Type: Article

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