Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1235-1241 , August 2009

Cerebral Hemodynamics during Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: The Effect of Carotid Stenosis

  • James L. Rudolph

      Affiliations

    • Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Boston, MA
    • Division of Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: James L. Rudolph, VABHS GRECC (JP-182), 150 South Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02130.
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  • Farzaneh A. Sorond

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Val E. Pochay

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
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  • Miguel Haime

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
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  • Patrick Treanor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
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  • Michael D. Crittenden

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, St. Louis VA Medical Center, St. Louis, MO
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  • Viken L. Babikian

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
    • Department of Neurology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA

Received 24 December 2008 ,Revised 9 March 2009 ,Accepted 9 April 2009.

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 This work was presented in abstract form at the International Stroke Conference November 2007 Boston, Massachusetts.

PII: S0301-5629(09)00159-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.04.008

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1235-1241 , August 2009

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