Improving patency of coronary conduits "valveless" veins and/or arterial grafts

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 170-177

  Lajos, Thomas Z ^a   Robicsek, Francis ^b   Thubrikar, Mano ^c   Urschel, Harold ^d  

^a Self Regional Healthcare   (United States)

^b Carolinas Heart Institute   (United States)

^c Heineman Medical Research Laboratory   (United States)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TURBULENT FLOW; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN VALVE;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; RADIAL ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33847419877     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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