Is the coronary physiology of bypass grafts different from that of the native coronary artery? Comment on the "hemodynamic evaluation of coronary artery bypass graft lesions using fractional flow reserve"

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 486-487

  Kern, Morton J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; NOTE; PREDICTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149263604     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21792     Document Type: Note

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