Impact of the learning curve for endoscopic vein harvest on conduit quality and early graft patency

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1385-1392

  Desai, Pranjal ^b   Kiani, Soroosh ^b   Thiruvanthan, Nannan ^b   Henkin, Stanislav ^b   Kurian, Dinesh ^b   Ziu, Pluen ^b   Brown, Alex ^b   Patel, Nisarg ^c   Poston, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC VEIN HARVEST; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN INJURY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 79955427950     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.01.079     Document Type: Article

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