Clinical outcome after composite grafting of calcified left anterior descending arteries

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 569-574

  Bernet, F H ^a   Hirschmann, M T ^a   Reineke, D ^a   Grapow, M ^a   Zerkowski, H R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass; Coronary endarterectomy; Left anterior descending coronary artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOTOMY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOLOGIST; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750732991     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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