Does mediastinitis affect the graft patency?

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 208-211

  Mansuroǧlu, Denyan ^a,b   Ömeroǧlu, Suat Nail ^a   Kaya, Erhan ^a   Kirali, Kaan ^a   Şişmanoǧlu, Mesut ^a   Mataraci, Ilker ^a   Güler, Mustafa ^a   Ipek, Gökhan ^a   Yakut, Cevat ^a  

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery   (Turkey)

^b Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Kliniǧi ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LAVAGE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIAL ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 18744407860     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.200411.x     Document Type: Article

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