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Carotid shunt provides cerebral protection during emergency coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with bilateral high grade carotid stenosis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Management of patients with co-existent coronary and carotid disease is a controversial and challenging issue. The risk for stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with hemodynamically significant carotid stenosis is up to 30%. In these patients a common practice...

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Autores principales: Bellos, John K, Kogerakis, Nektarios, Kiriazis, Charalampos, Gougoulakis, Alexandros, Panagiotou, Matthew
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3069958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21418607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-33