Arm temperature distribution in thermographic pictures after radial artery harvesting for coronary bypass operation

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 598-602

  Jaworski, Łukasz ^a   Siondalski, Piotr ^a   Jarmoszewicz, Krzysztof ^a   Rogowski, Jan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hand function; Handgrip test; Radial artery; Temperature distribution

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; ENDURANCE; FINGER; FOREARM; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REST; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMOGRAPHY; ULNA; ULNAR ARTERY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; HAND; ISCHEMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FOREARM; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 34848863017     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.151795     Document Type: Article

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