A Leguerrier, T Langanay, J L Fasquel, J F Delambre, H Le Couls, C Rioux, Y Logeais
Technique of fibrinolysis and angioplasty have changed the face of emergency coronary artery surgery, which had developed considerably over recent years. Between 1982 and 1986, in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery of the University Hospital of Rennes, 1,232 patients underwent isolated coronary artery revascularisation (with the exclusion of mechanical complications of infarction). 1,040 patients were operated electively and 192 patients underwent emergency surgery with very different results: mortality of 2...
1990: Annales de Chirurgie