Double thoracic artery - Halved mid-term mortality? A 5-year follow-up of 716 patients receiving bilateral ITA versus 662 patients with single ITA

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 878-883

  Gansera, B ^a   Loef, A ^a   Angelis, I ^a   Gillrath, G ^a   Schmidtler, F ^a   Kemkes, B M ^a  

^a KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral versus single ITA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11244306180     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-004-0141-x     Document Type: Article

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