Sequential Radial Artery Grafts for Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: 10-Year Survival and Angiography Results

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-39

  Schwann, Thomas A ^a   Zacharias, Anoar ^a   Riordan, Christopher J ^a,b   Durham, Samuel J ^a,b   Shah, Aamir S ^a,b   Habib, Robert H ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 67649761889     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.081     Document Type: Article

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