What has happened to multiple arterial grafting in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery?

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1099-1105

  Elghobary, Tamer ^a   Légaré, Jean Francois ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

arterial grafts; coronary artery bypass grafting; coronary artery disease; ischemic heart disease; outcomes; saphenous vein

Indexed keywords

ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MEDIASTINITIS; MORBIDITY; OSCILLATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RADIAL ARTERY; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 77955179051     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.10.101     Document Type: Review

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