Angiographic evidence for reduced graft patency due to competitive flow in composite arterial T-grafts

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1220-1225

  Pevni, Dmitry ^a   Hertz, Itzhak ^a   Medalion, Benjamin ^b   Kramer, Amir ^a   Paz, Yosef ^a   Uretzky, Gideon ^a   Mohr, Rephael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS;

EID: 34247402057     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.07.060     Document Type: Article

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