Research Catalog

Title

Coronary artery graft disease : mechanisms and prevention / T.F. Lüscher, M. Turina, E. Braunwald (Eds.).

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Braunwald, Eugene, 1929-
• Lüscher, Thomas F. (Thomas Felix)
• Turina, Marko.

Description

xiii, 396 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Subjects

• Graft Rejection
• Coronary Artery Bypass > adverse effects
• Coronary artery bypass > Complications
• Coronary Disease > therapy
• Graft rejection

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Natural History of Saphenous Vein Grafts / C. M. Grondin and J. C. Thornton -- Risks and Prediction of Adverse after Coronary Bypass Grafting based on a Single Center Experience / P. Sergeant -- Mechanisms of Plaque Formation and Occlusion in Venous Coronary Bypass Grafts / I. K. Jang and V. Fuster -- Arterial and Venous Coronary Bypass Grafts: Surgical Techniques and Outcome / F. D. Loop -- Newer Arterial Coronary Bypass Conduits: Right Gastroepiploic and Epigastric Artery / H. Suma -- The Role of Radionuclide Imaging in the Diagnosis of Coronary Bypass Graft Failure / F. J. T. Wackers -- Coronary Artery Graft Disease: Diagnosis of Graft Failure by Magnetic Resonance Imaging / P. T. Buser and C. B. Higgins -- Positron Emission Tomography: Evaluation of Myocardial Blood Flow and Viability Before and Following Coronary Revascularization / S. G. Sawada and M. Schwaiger -- Transcutaneous Assessment of Blood Flow in Internal Thoracic Artery to Coronary Artery Grafts / D. P. de Bono.
• Coronary Angiography in the Diagnosis of Graft Failure / P. R. Lichtlen and H. Hausmann -- Left Ventricular Function: Systolic and Diastolic Alterations / H. P. Krayenbuhl, M. Jakob and O. M. Hess -- Endothelium and Vascular Smooth Muscle Function of Coronary Bypass Grafts / T. F. Luscher, Z. Yang and B. S. Oemar -- Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation Responses in Organ Cultures of Human Saphenous Vein / G. D. Angelini and A. C. Newby -- Chronic Changes in Venous Grafts After Implantation / D. A. Lewis and V. M. Miller -- Lipids and Lipid-Lowering Drugs and Graft Function / H. Drexel and F. W. Amann -- Treatment of Severe Hypercholesterolemia in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease by Means of Lipoprotein Apheresis / D. Seidel -- Antiplatelet Drugs / J. H. Chesebro, B. J. Meyer, A. Fernando-Ortiz, I. K. Jang and V. Fuster -- Anticoagulants and Antiplatelet Drugs to Prevent Aortocoronary Vein Graft Occlusion / M. Pfisterer.
• Calcium Antagonists in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery / S. O. Gottlieb -- Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in Patients with Failed Bypass Graft Surgery / J. Hollman -- Intraluminal Stents in Coronary Bypass Grafts / P. Urban and B. Meier -- Reoperation: Techniques and Choice of Conduits / L. K. von Segesser and M. L. Turina -- Cardiac Transplantation for Ischaemic Heart Disease.

ISBN

• 3540574387 (Berlin : alk. paper)
• 0387574387 (U.S. : alk. paper)

LCCN

94016135

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries