Intraoperative color Doppler ultrasound assessment of anastomoses of the left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending coronary artery during off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery correlates with angiographic evaluation at the 8-month follow-up

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 375-379

  Tjomsland, Ole ^a   Wiseth, Rune ^a   Wahba, Alexander ^a   Tromsdal, Arve ^a   Samstad, Stein O ^a   Haaverstad, Rune ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART BEAT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0142155059     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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