A Patent Left Internal Thoracic Artery Should Not Be Dissected or Clamped During Reoperative Cardiac Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1725-1726

  Galiñanes, Manuel ^a   Sosnowski, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ROOT; ARTERY CLAMP; CARDIOPLEGIA; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISSECTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VASCULAR PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; LIGATION; MAMMARY ARTERY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

CONSTRICTION; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; REOPERATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 70449726976     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.136     Document Type: Letter

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