Off-pump coronary artery bypass and the hypothesis from which it grew: Is it yet to be tested? What are the downsides of the lingering questions?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-5

  Floyd, Thomas ^a   Fleisher, Lee A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 11444257031     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200501000-00003     Document Type: Editorial

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