Complexity of Coronary Vasculature Predicts Outcome of Surgery for Left Main Disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1097-1105

  Birim, Özcan ^a   van Gameren, Menno ^a   Bogers, Ad J J C ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^b   Kappetein, A Pieter ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 62749199799     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.11.079     Document Type: Article

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