Excellent Long-Term Clinical Outcome After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Using Three Pedicled Arterial Grafts in Patients With Three-Vessel Disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 508-512

  Veeger, Nic J G M ^a   Panday, Gerald F ^c   Voors, Adriaan A ^a   Grandjean, Jan G ^a   van der Meer, Jan ^b   Boonstra, Piet W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Thrombosis and Rheology   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549121298     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.09.048     Document Type: Article

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