Sequential Bypass Grafting on the Beating Heart: Blood Flow Characteristics

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 620-623

  Gwozdziewicz, Marek ^a   Němec, Petr ^a   Šimek, Martin ^a   Hajek, Roman ^a   Troubil, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OLOMOUC   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33746068287     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.12.069     Document Type: Article

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