A rare connection by newly formed conduit vessels between the left internal mammalian artery and radial artery bypass grafts after failure of grafts

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-230

  Otsuka, Yoritaka ^a,b   Yamanaka, Futoshi ^a   Yamane, Takafumi ^a   Adachi, Taichi ^a   Tada, Eiji ^a   Yagi, Nobuhito ^a   Kataoka, Yu ^a   Kasahara, Yoichiro ^a   Nonogi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA WAJIRO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bypass surgery; Chronic total occlusion; Collaterals

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 79955583109     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-010-0062-8     Document Type: Article

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