Radial artery as a graft for coronary artery bypass grafting

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1178-1183

  Kobayashi, Junjiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass; Left internal thoracic artery; Radial artery; Saphenous vein

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DILTIAZEM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MILRINONE; PAPAVERINE; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

AORTA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY SPASM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PARESTHESIA; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULSE OXIMETRY; RADIAL ARTERY; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 68149137395     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0322     Document Type: Review

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