Does obesity affect operative times and perioperative outcome of patients undergoing totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 214-217

  Wiedemann, Dominik ^a   Schachner, Thomas ^a   Bonaros, Nikolaos ^a   Weidinger, Felix ^a   Kolbitsch, Christian ^a   Friedrich, Guy ^a   Laufer, Gúnther ^a   Bonatti, Johannes ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafting; Endoscopic surgery; Obesity coronary artery disease; Robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOFILTRATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIPECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIOTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSCOPY; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIPECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; OVERWEIGHT; PERICARDIECTOMY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68049110394     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.203059     Document Type: Article

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