Results with the Heartstring anastomotic device in patients with diseased ascending aorta

Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 238-239

  Biancari, Fausto ^a   Mosorin, Martti ^a   Lahtinen, Jarmo ^a   Heikkinen, Jouni ^a   Rasinaho, Elsi ^a   Anttila, Vesa ^a   Lepojärvi, Martti ^a   Juvonen, Tatu ^a  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anastomotic device; Ascending aorta; Heart string; Off pump coronary artery bypass surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA SURGERY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STROKE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33747348157     PISSN: 14017431     EISSN: 16512006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14017430600849211     Document Type: Article

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