Radial artery graft for coronary artery bypass surgery: Biological characteristics and clinical outcome

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 102-114

  Manabe, Susumu ^a   Sunamori, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DILTIAZEM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LOPRINONE; MILRINONE; NICARDIPINE; NICORANDIL; NIFEDIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PAPAVERINE; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE III INHIBITOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL STIMULATING AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY SPASM; ATHEROGENESIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG POTENCY; ELASTIC FIBER; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIAL ARTERY; REVIEW; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; RADIAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 33645220533     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2006.00182.x     Document Type: Review

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