Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: The Zurich experience

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 234-236

  Tavakoli, R ^a   Reuthebuch, O ^b   Hofer, C ^a   Grunenfelder J ^b   Genoni, M ^a,b  

^a City Hospital Zürich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANESTHESIST; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVICE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 34247243708     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20051133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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