Routine use of bilateral skeletonized internal thoracic artery grafting: Long-term results

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 705-712

  Pevni, D ^a   Uretzky, G ^a   Mohr, A ^a   Braunstein, R ^a   Kramer, A ^a   Paz, Y ^a   Shapira, I ^a   Mohr, R ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Grafting; Revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50349095950     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.756676     Document Type: Article

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