Changes in left anterior descending coronary artery flow profiles after coronary artery bypass grafting examined by means of transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1531-1536

  Yoshitatsu, Masao ^a,d   Miyamoto, Yuji ^a   Mitsuno, Masataka ^a   Toda, Koichi ^a   Yoshikawa, Masato ^a   Fukui, Shinya ^a   Nomura, Fumikazu ^b   Hirata, Nobuaki ^c   Onishi, Kenji ^a  

^a Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^c Takarazuka City Hospital   (Japan)

^d National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0345356432     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(03)00972-3     Document Type: Article

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