Long-Term Patency of 1108 Radial Arterial-Coronary Angiograms Over 10 Years

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-30

  Tatoulis, James ^a,b   Buxton, Brian F ^b,c   Fuller, John A ^c   Meswani, Manish ^a   Theodore, Sanjay ^a   Powar, Nikunj ^a   Wynne, Rochelle ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c EPWORTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 67649803044     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.086     Document Type: Article

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