Benefit of partial right-bilateral internal thoracic artery harvesting in patients at risk of sternal wound complications

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 139-143

  Zeitani, Jacob ^a   De Peppo, Alfonso Penta ^b   De Paulis, Ruggero ^b   Nardi, Paolo ^b   Scafuri, Antonio ^b   Nardella, Saverio ^b   Chiariello, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND COMPLICATION;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 29144503055     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.06.025     Document Type: Article

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