Gastroepiploic Artery Grafting Does Not Improve the Late Outcome in Patients With Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1024-1029

  Esaki, Jiro ^a   Koshiji, Takaaki ^a   Okamoto, Minoru ^a   Tsukashita, Masaki ^a   Ikuno, Takeshi ^a   Sakata, Ryuzo ^b  

^a Kumamoto Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847377571     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.10.020     Document Type: Article

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