What is the mortality and recuperative difference of bilateral versus single thoracic artery coronary revascularization in patients with reoperation or over 80 years of age?

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 511-515

  Siminelakis, Stavros ^b   Anagnostopoulos, Constantine ^a,b   Toumpoulis, Ioannis ^b   DeRose, Joseph ^a   Katritsis, Demosthenes ^b   Swistel, Daniel ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMARY ARTERY; MICROSCOPE; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REOPERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; NEW YORK; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9744246736     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2004.04089.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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