Long-term physical activity and neurologic function after harvesting of the radial artery as T-graft or free graft in coronary revascularization

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 918-921

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Lichtenberg, Artur ^a   Tomaszek, Sandra ^a   Hagl, Christian ^a   Khaladj, Nawid ^a   Klima, Uwe ^a   Haverich, Axel ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; RATING SCALE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPORT; THUMB; WRIST; WRITING;

BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; GERMANY; HAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIAL ARTERY; SMOKING; SPORTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 23944520864     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.03.104     Document Type: Article

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