Thirty-Year Follow-Up Defines Survival Benefit for Second Internal Mammary Artery in Propensity-Matched Groups

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-108

  Kurlansky, Paul A ^a   Traad, Ernest A ^a   Dorman, Malcolm J ^b   Galbut, David L ^a   Zucker, Melinda ^b   Ebra, George ^b  

^a Florida Heart Research Institute   (United States)

^b JFK Medical Center Atlantis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STRATIFICATION; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953596341     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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