Intraoperative echocardiographic assessment of the severe isolated ostial stenosis of left main coronary artery before and after surgical patch angioplasty

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 280-285

  Sobkowicz, Bozena ^a   Hirnle, Tomasz ^a   Dobrzycki, Sławomir ^a   Frank, Marek ^a   Sawicki, Robert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Left main coronary artery; Ostial stenosis; Surgical left main coronary artery patch angioplasty; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PATCH ANGIOPLASTY; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 21344464009     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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