Coronary graft use of a new external mesh support

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 645-647

  Rescigno, Giuseppe ^a   Angelini, Andrea ^a   D'Alfonso, Alessandro ^a   Torracca, Lucia ^a  

^a Ancona Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Myocardial revascularization; Vein graft

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL MESH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950662698     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.221093     Document Type: Article

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