Harmonic scalpel versus electrocautery for harvest of radial artery conduits: Reduced risk of spasm and intimal injury on optical coherence tomography

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1302-1308

  Brazio, Philip S ^a   Laird, Patrick C ^a   Xu, Chenyang ^b   Gu, Junyan ^a   Burris, Nicholas S ^a   Brown, Emile N ^a   Kon, Zachary N ^a   Poston, Robert S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b St Jude Medical Subsidiary   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VASOSPASM;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; RADIAL ARTERY; SPASM; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 56249143079     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.05.060     Document Type: Article

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