TY - JOUR
T1 - Roles of Transit-Time Flow Measurement for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
AU - Takami, Yoshiyuki
AU - Takagi, Yasushi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart. New York.
PY - 2018/1/19
Y1 - 2018/1/19
N2 - Transit-time flow measurement (TTFM) has been increasingly applied to detect graft failure during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), because TTFM is less invasive, more reproducible, and less time consuming. Many authors have attempted to validate TTFM and to gain the clear cutoff values and algorithm in TTFM to predict graft failure. The TTFM technology has also been shown to be a useful tool to investigate CABG graft flow characteristics and coronary circulation physiology. It is important to recognize the practical roles of TTFM in the cardiac operating room by review and summarize the literatures.
AB - Transit-time flow measurement (TTFM) has been increasingly applied to detect graft failure during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), because TTFM is less invasive, more reproducible, and less time consuming. Many authors have attempted to validate TTFM and to gain the clear cutoff values and algorithm in TTFM to predict graft failure. The TTFM technology has also been shown to be a useful tool to investigate CABG graft flow characteristics and coronary circulation physiology. It is important to recognize the practical roles of TTFM in the cardiac operating room by review and summarize the literatures.
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U2 - 10.1055/s-0037-1618575
DO - 10.1055/s-0037-1618575
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29351697
AN - SCOPUS:85040767795
SN - 0171-6425
VL - 66
SP - 426
EP - 433
JO - Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
JF - Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
IS - 6
ER -