Endoscopic radial artery harvesting reduces postoperative pain and neurologic complications

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 255-257

  Rudez, Igor ^a   Unic, Daniel ^a   Sutlic, Zeljko ^a   Biocina, Bojan ^a   Baric, Davor ^a   Ivkovic, Mira ^a   Pavlovic, Mirjana ^a  

^a University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RADIAL ARTERY; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 35349011592     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20071105     Document Type: Article

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