Verapamil and nitroglycerin improves the patency rate of radial artery grafts

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 396-400

  Yoshizaki, Tomoya ^b   Tabuchi, Noriyuki ^b   Toyama, Masaaki ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY MINATO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; PAPAVERINE; VERAPAMIL; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY SPASM; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR PATENCY; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGLYCERIN; PAPAVERINE; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASM; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 55949123939     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230801600511     Document Type: Article

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