Intraoperative Transesophagial Echocardiography Modifies Strategy in Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1035-1040

  Gurbuz, Ahmet Tayfun ^a,b   Hecht, Michael L ^a   Arslan, Ahmet Hulisi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; INCIDENTAL FINDING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33847360572     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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