Does bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting increase long-term survival of diabetic patients?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 599-607

  Toumpoulis, Ioannis K ^b   Anagnostopoulos, Constantine E ^a   Balaram, Sandhya ^b   Swistel, Daniel G ^b   Ashton Jr , Robert C ^b   DeRose Jr , Joseph J ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC ARTERIES;

EID: 31044432366     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.07.082     Document Type: Article

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