Which Arterial Conduit? Radial Artery Versus Free Right Internal Thoracic Artery: Six-Year Clinical Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 493-497

  Hayward, Philip A R ^a   Hare, David L ^a   Gordon, Ian ^b   Matalanis, George ^a   Buxton, Brian F ^a  

^a AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34447535226     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.03.053     Document Type: Article

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