Skeletonized internal thoracic artery harvest reduces pain and dysesthesia and improves sternal perfusion after coronary artery bypass surgery: A randomized, double-blind, within-patient comparison

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 766-773

  Boodhwani, Munir ^a   Lam, B Khanh ^a   Nathan, Howard J ^a   Mesana, Thierry G ^a   Ruel, Marc ^a   Zeng, Wanzhen ^b   Sellke, Frank W ^c   Rubens, Fraser D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass; Mammary arteries; Pain, postoperative; Randomized controlled trials; Tissue and organ harvesting

Indexed keywords

PAPAVERINE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SELECTION; SAMPLE SIZE; STERNUM; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33747613745     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.615427     Document Type: Article

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