Decision-Making for Patients With Patent Left Internal Thoracic Artery Grafts to Left Anterior Descending

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1392-1400

  Subramanian, Sreekumar ^a   Sabik III, Joseph F ^a   Houghtaling, Penny L ^a   Nowicki, Edward R ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Lytle, Bruce W ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENOSIS; SURVIVAL;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64649094364     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.02.032     Document Type: Article

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