Improved Survival with Radial Artery Versus Vein Conduits in Coronary Bypass Surgery with Left Internal Thoracic Artery to Left Anterior Descending Artery Grafting

Circulation

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1489-1496

  Zacharias, Anoar ^a,b,c   Habib, Robert H ^a,b,c   Schwann, Thomas A ^a,b,c   Riordan, Christopher J ^a,b,c   Durham, Samuel J ^a,b,c   Shah, Aamir ^a,b,c  

^a ST VINCENT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St Luke's Hospital Ohio   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary disease; Restenosis; Revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RESTENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS;

EID: 1842591121     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000121743.10146.78     Document Type: Article

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