Preventing stroke during coronary bypass: Are we focusing on the wrong culprit?

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-59

  Borger, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; STROKE;

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 12944262334     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2005.200497.x     Document Type: Article

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