Long-Term Palmar Microcirculation After Radial Artery Harvesting: An Observational Study

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1700-1707

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Tomaszek, Sandra ^a   Lichtenberg, Artur ^a   Karck, Matthias ^a   Haverich, Axel ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAPILLARY FLOW; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FINGER; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HAND PALM; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIMB PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROCIRCULATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THUMB; VENOUS PRESSURE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; BODY MASS; CAPILLARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HAND; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY MASS INDEX; CAPILLARIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33646845451     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.12.030     Document Type: Article

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