Intraoperative detection of intimal lipid in the radial artery predicts degree of postoperative spasm

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 466-471

  Brown, Emile N ^a   Burris, Nicholas S ^a   Kon, Zachary N ^a   Grant, Michael C ^a   Brazio, Philip S ^a   Xu, Chenyang ^b   Laird, Patrick ^a   Gu, Junyen ^a   Kallam, Seeta ^a   Desai, Pranjal ^c   Poston, Robert S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LightLab Imaging Inc   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CABG; Computed tomography; Optical coherence tomography; Radial artery; Vascular function

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL RISK;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOPSY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK; SPASM; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 67650914651     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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