Right Gastroepiploic Artery for Revascularization of the Right Coronary Territory in Off-Pump Total Arterial Revascularization: Strategies to Improve Patency

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2135-2141

  Kim, Ki Bong ^a   Cho, Kwang Ree ^a   Choi, Jae Sung ^a   Lee, Hyun Joo ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLOWMETER; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33646833604     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.01.043     Document Type: Article

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