Does the Number of Grafts Influence Surgeon Choice and Patient Benefit of Off-Pump Over Conventional On-Pump Coronary Artery Revascularization in Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1485-1495

  Lattouf, Omar M ^a   Puskas, John D ^a   Thourani, Vinod H ^a   Noora, Joseph ^a   Kilgo, Patrick D ^b   Guyton, Robert A ^a  

^a Carlyle Fraser Heart Center   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA BASE; DEATH; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 35348936692     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.035     Document Type: Article

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