An update on internal mammary artery grafting for coronary artery disease

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 521-524

  Damgaard, Sune ^a   Steinbrüchel, Daniel A ^b   Kjaergard, Henrik K ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arterial revascularization; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Graft patency; Internal mammary artery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTERY GRAFT; COMPOSITE GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; VASODILATATION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 27644497522     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hco.0000182833.26273.f1     Document Type: Review

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