Collateral blood flow between left coronary artery bypass grafts and chronically occluded right coronary circulation in patients with triple vessel disease. Observations during complete revascularisation of beating hearts | Zendy

JeanPhilippe Verhoye | Zendy; Issam Abouliatim | Zendy; Agnès Drochon | Zendy; Bertand de Latour | Zendy; Christophe Leclercq | Zendy; Alain Leguerrier | Zendy; Hervé Corbineau | Zendy

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Collateral blood flow between left coronary artery bypass grafts and chronically occluded right coronary circulation in patients with triple vessel disease. Observations during complete revascularisation of beating hearts

Author(s) -

JeanPhilippe Verhoye,

Issam Abouliatim,

Agnès Drochon,

Bertand de Latour,

Christophe Leclercq,

Alain Leguerrier,

Hervé Corbineau

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.09.033

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , collateral circulation , blood flow , coronary circulation , coronary artery disease , right coronary artery , artery , bypass surgery , circulation (fluid dynamics) , coronary angiography , myocardial infarction , physics , thermodynamics

Preoperative measurements of collateral blood flow in patients with triple vessel disease and chronic occlusions of the right coronary artery do not, currently, ascertain the need to revascularise an occluded right coronary artery. We performed direct measurements of flow across left coronary bypass grafts to determine their contributions to collateral blood flow.

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