Guidant heartstring: Initial experience in OPCAB surgery

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Weber, Alberto ^a   Reuthebuch, Oliver ^a   Turina, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CALCIFIED AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY VESSELS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33747369297     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20041113     Document Type: Article

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