Off-Pump Coronary Bypass Surgery: Another Brick in the Wall of Reduced Graft Patency

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 675-676

  Parolari, Alessandro ^a   Tremoli, Elena ^a   Biglioli, Paolo ^a   Alamanni, Francesco ^a  

^a CENTRO CARDIOLOGICO MONZINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 58249136198     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.03.066     Document Type: Letter

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