Factors associated with presence of ascending aortic atherosclerosis in CABG patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2028-2032

  Schachner, Thomas ^a   Nagele, Georg ^a   Kacani, Andre ^a   Laufer, Günther ^a   Bonatti, Johannes ^a,b  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Chirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALPATION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 9344240793     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.04.078     Document Type: Article

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