Determining whether acute myocardial infarction in patients with previous coronary bypass grafting is the result of narrowing of a bypass conduit or of a native coronary artery

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 670-671

  Moreno, Raúl ^a   López De Sá, Esteban ^a   López Sendón, José ^a   Rubio, Rafael ^a   Bobadilla, Jaime F ^a   García, Eulogio J ^a   Delcán, Juan L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0342547198     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00837-5     Document Type: Article

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