Prospective, randomized study on the use of the Cardica PAS-port aortic connector system in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 106-109

  Lahtinen, Jarmo ^a   Biancari, Fausto ^a   Ojala, Risto ^a   Mosorin, Martti ^a   Cresti, Riccardo ^a   Rainio, Pekka ^b   Anttila, Vesa ^b   Lepojärvi, Martti ^a   Juvonen, Tatu ^a  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEIN GRAFT; ANASTOMOSIS; AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUTURING METHOD;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 54749118169     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20051182     Document Type: Article

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