Skeletonization of gastroepiploic artery graft in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: Early clinical and angiographic assessment

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2046-2050

  Kamiya, Hiroyuki ^a   Watanabe, Go ^a   Takemura, Hirofumi ^a   Tomita, Shigeyuki ^a   Nagamine, Hiroshi ^a   Kanamori, Taro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VASOSPASM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 2542445181     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.10.101     Document Type: Article

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