Improved patient outcomes when transmyocardial revascularization is used as adjunctive revascularization

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 328-330

  Wehberg, Kurt E ^a,b   Julian, J Stephens ^a   Todd III, James C ^a   Ogburn, Nicholas ^a   Klopp, Edward ^a   Buchness, Michael ^a  

^a Peninsula Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^b CV Surgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142154901     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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