Intraoperative transit-time flowmetry in patients undergoing coronary surgery to determine relationships between graft flow and patency and prior coronary interventions and flow demand: a retrospective study.
Hiroyuki NakajimaAkitoshi TakazawaAkihiro YoshitakeMasato TochiiChiho TokunagaJun HayashiHiroaki IzumidaDaisuke KaneyukiToshihisa AsakuraAtsushi IguchiPublished in: Journal of cardiothoracic surgery (2018)
Prior PCI has a negative impact on graft flow. The influences of small revascularized area, myocardial infarction, and PCI are greater, necessitating consideration of factors associated with flow demand or microvasculature when planning revascularization.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery disease
- patients undergoing
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- coronary artery
- acute myocardial infarction
- acute coronary syndrome
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- heart failure
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- antiplatelet therapy
- coronary artery bypass
- atrial fibrillation
- left ventricular
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- aortic stenosis
- aortic valve
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement