Limitations of Angiographic Predictors of Bypass Graft Patency

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 886-887

  Kern, Morton J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 49849098567     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.02.089     Document Type: Letter

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