Patients With In-Stent Restenosis Have an Increased Risk of Mid-Term Venous Graft Failure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 802-804

  Gaudino, Mario ^a   Luciani, Nicola ^a   Glieca, Franco ^a   Cellini, Carlo ^a   Pragliola, Claudio ^a   Trani, Carlo ^b   Burzotta, Francesco ^b   Schiavoni, Giovanni ^b   Anselmi, Amedeo ^a   Possati, Gianfederico ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 33747361221     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.04.084     Document Type: Article

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