Skeletonized radial artery grafting: One-year patency rate

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 211-216

  Hirose, Hitoshi ^a,b   Amano, Atsushi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 4644221578     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20041017     Document Type: Article

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