High OPCAB surgical volume improves midterm event-free survival

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Agostini, Marco ^a   Fino, Carlo ^a   Torchio, Pierfederico ^b   Di Gregorio, Vincenzo ^a   Feola, Mauro ^a   Bertora, Marco ^a   Lugli, Elisa ^a   Grossi, Claudio ^a  

^a S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEALTH; HEART DEATH; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; STROKE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; STATISTICS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STROKE;

EID: 75349098408     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: 15226662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20091034     Document Type: Article

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