Twelve-Month Patency With the PAS-Port Proximal Connector Device: A Single Center Prospective Randomized Trial

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1579-1584

  Kempfert, Jörg ^a   Opfermann, Ulrich T ^a   Richter, Markus ^a   Bossert, Torsten ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^a   Gummert, Jan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DELIRIUM; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HANDSEWN ANASTOMOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROXIMAL CONNECTOR DEVICE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; STROKE;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DELIRIUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEINS;

EID: 42949091782     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.074     Document Type: Article

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