Extensive reconstruction of the left anterior descending coronary artery with an internal thoracic artery graft

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 445-451

  Fukui, Toshihiro ^a,b   Tabata, Minoru ^a,b   Taguri, Masataka ^a,b   Manabe, Susumu ^a,b   Morita, Satoshi ^a,b   Takanashi, Shuichiro ^a,b  

^a SAKAKIBARA HEART INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 78751653861     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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