Graft design strategies with optimum antegrade bypass flow in total arterial off-pump coronary artery bypass

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 276-282

  Nakajima, Hiroyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Junjiro ^a   Tagusari, Osamu ^a   Niwaya, Kazuo ^a   Funatsu, Toshihiro ^a   Brik, Alaa ^a   Yagihara, Toshikatsu ^a   Kitamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Arterial graft; CABG; Off pump

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STERNOTOMY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33846406029     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.11.025     Document Type: Article

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