Mid-to-long-term patency comparison of the right internal thoracic artery grafts on the left anterior descending and on the right coronary arteries

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 180-184

  Mert, Murat ^a   Caglar Erdem, C ^a   Babalik, E ^a   Bakay, C ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Left anterior descending artery; Right coronary artery; Right internal thoracic artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0141960812     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-42257     Document Type: Article

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