Totally endoscopic sequential arterial coronary artery bypass grafting on the beating heart

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 391-392

  Ak, Koray ^a   Wimmer Greinecker, Gerhard ^a   Dzemali, Omer ^a   Moritz, Anton ^a   Dogan, Selami ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beating heart; Sequential grafting; Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GERMANY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; THORAX DRAINAGE; TROCAR; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ROBOTICS;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROBOTICS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34249722720     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(07)70774-2     Document Type: Letter

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