Mortality in coronary artery bypass grafting: What's next?

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 2409-2411

  Ferguson, T Bruce ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOCK; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84861338029     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.106856     Document Type: Editorial

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