Effects of upper-extremity vascular access creation on cardiac events in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.

The present study was conducted to investigate whether upper-extremity vascular access (VA) creation increases the risk for major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and death in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with an in situ left internal thoracic artery (ITA) graft. A total o...

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Main Authors: Youngjin Han, Suk Jung Choo, Hyunwook Kwon, Jae Won Lee, Cheol Hyun Chung, Hyangkyoung Kim, Tae-Won Kwon, Yong-Pil Cho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184168&type=printable