Extrafascially harvested radial artery in CABG: Technique of harvest, complications, and mid-term angiographic patency

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 440-448

  Sajja, Lokeswara Rao ^a   Mannam, Gopichand ^a   Sompalli, Sriramulu ^a  

^a CARE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DILTIAZEM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; SEROMA; SKIN ABSCESS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIAL ARTERY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 28544434794     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.MRROME11.x     Document Type: Article

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