Early clinical results of St. Jude Medical Symmetry aortic connector

Journal of Artificial Organs

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 95-99

  Toyama, Masashi ^a   Usui, Akihiko ^a   Abe, Tomonobu ^a   Yoshikawa, Masaharu ^a   Akita, Toshiaki ^a   Ueda, Yuichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic connector; Graft flow; Hyperlipidemia; Patency; Saphenous vein graft

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; ST JUDE MEDICAL SYMMETRY AORTIC CONNECTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 23744514991     PISSN: 14347229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10047-005-0293-0     Document Type: Article

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