Right gastroepiploic artery graft: Long-term clinical follow-up in 271 patients - Experience of a single center

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 539-544

  Formica, Francesco ^a   Greco, Pierpaolo ^a   Colagrande, Luisa ^a   Martino, Antonello ^a   Corti, Fabrizio ^a   Ferro, Orazio ^a   Paolini, Giovanni ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33750473413     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2006.00292.x     Document Type: Article

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