Angiographic Predictors of 6-Month Patency of Bypass Grafts Implanted to the Right Coronary Artery. A Prospective Randomized Comparison of Gastroepiploic Artery and Saphenous Vein Grafts

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-125

  Glineur, David ^a   D'hoore, William ^a   El Khoury, Gebrine ^a   Sondji, Sixte ^a   Kalscheuer, Gregory ^a   Funken, Jean Christophe ^a   Rubay, Jean ^a   Poncelet, Alain ^a   Astarci, Parla ^a   Verhelst, Robert ^a   Noirhomme, Philippe ^a   Hanet, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SMOKING;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 37849037629     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.09.030     Document Type: Article

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