Midterm angiographic patency and vasoreactive profile of proximal versus distal radial artery grafts

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1987-1989

  Gaudino, Mario ^a   Nasso, Giuseppe ^b   Canosa, Carlo ^b   Glieca, Franco ^b   Salica, Andrea ^b   Alessandrini, Francesco ^b   Possati, Gianfederico ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASOSPASM;

ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444389402     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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