Is the visual examination of LIMA graft sufficient for the decision reusing of this graft in redo coronary bypass surgery?

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-53

  Kucukarslan, Nezihi ^a   Uzun, Mehmet ^a   Kuralay, Erkan ^a   Tatar, Harun ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENDARTERECTOMY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 33846254931     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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