Unusable radial artery for severe atherosclerosis in a young patient

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 263-264

  Settepani, Fabrizio ^a   Cappai, Antioco ^a   Citterio, Enrico ^a   Melis, Licia C M ^a   Tarelli, Giuseppe ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; COMPLICATION; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; MAMMARY ARTERY; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIAL ARTERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 84924147714     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12356     Document Type: Article

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