A randomized comparison of the Saphenous Vein Versus Right Internal Thoracic Artery as a Y-Composite Graft (SAVERITA trial): Early results

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1027-1035

  Hwang, Ho Young ^a   Kim, Jun Sung ^b   Oh, Se Jin ^a   Kim, Ki Bong ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY GRAFT; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; RIGHT INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; WOUND HEALING; Y COMPOSITE GRAFT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SOUTH KOREA; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 85027937259     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.07.054     Document Type: Article

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