The risk factors affecting the complications of saphenous vein graft harvesting in Aortocoronary bypass surgery

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 331-337

  Kayacioglu, Ilyas ^a   Camur, Gercek ^a   Gunay, Rafet ^a   Ates, Mehmet ^a,b   Sensoz, Yavuz ^a   Alkan, Pinar ^a   Idiz, Mustafa ^a   Yekeler, Ibrahim ^a  

^a DR SIYAMI ERSEK THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Merdivenkoy Mah Sairarsi CadEmincinarpasa Sok   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Complication; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Saphenectomy; Saphenous vein harvesting; Wound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN STRIPPING; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34247166293     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.211.331     Document Type: Article

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