Repeat median sternotomy after prior ante-aortic crossover right internal thoracic artery grafting

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-154

  Lev Ran, Oren ^a,b   Mohr, Raphael ^a   Aviram, Galit ^a   Matsa, Menachem ^a   Nesher, Nahum ^a   Pevni, Dmitry ^a   Uretzky, Gideon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTEAORTIC CROSSOVER RIGHT INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STERNOTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA, THORACIC; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 1642287947     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2004.04029.x     Document Type: Article

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