Right coronary artery revascularization in patients undergoing bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting: Comparison of the free internal thoracic artery with saphenous vein grafts

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 93-98

  Paz, Yosef ^a,b   Lev Ran, Oren ^a,b   Locker, Chaim ^a,b   Shapira, Itzhak ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafting; Internal thoracic artery; Saphenous vein graft

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345689401     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-9293(02)00062-2     Document Type: Review

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