Quality of anastomosis in conventional on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery: Influence of the interrupted technique using U-clips and correlation with intraoperative graft flow patterns

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-16

  Mayuga, Kenneth A ^a,b   Harper, Baron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; ANASTOMOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33845288044     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20051157     Document Type: Article

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