Contents.

1. Rheology: The Physical Basis of Blood Flow.

Harry W. Donias, Hratch L. Karamanoukian, Giuseppe D'Ancona.

2. Functional and Anatomical Tests to Evaluate Graft Patency after Vascular Surgery Procedures: Principles and Clinical Applications.

Einar Stranden.

3. Transit Time Flow Measurement: Principles and Clinical Applications.

Jasper Laustsen.

4. Use of Transit Time Flow Measurement in Vascular and General Surgery.

Anders Lundell.

5. Competitive Flow and Steal Phenomenon in Coronary Surgery.

Giuseppe Speziale.

6. Transit Time Flow Measurement in Off-Pump Coronary Surgery Bypass Grafting: The Buffalo Experience.

Guiseppe D'Ancona, Hratch L. Karamanoukian, Marco Ricci, Tomas A. Salerno, Jacob Bergsland.

7. Formal Flow in Coronary Surgery.

Gabriele Di Giammarco.

8. Automated Classification Procedures and Neural Network Models to Predict the Level of Anastomotic Stenosis in Off-Pump CABG Surgery.

Patricia B. Cerrito, Steven C. Koenig, Paul A. Spence.

9. Intraoperative Graft Patency Verification: Coronary Angiography Versus Transit Time Flow Measurement.

Erik Fosse, Per Kristian Hol.

10. Intraoperative Flow Measurements: Predictive Value for Postoperative Angiographic Follow-Up.

Yves A.G. Louagie, Carlos E. Brockmann, O. Gurné, Jacques Jamart.

11. Transit Time Flow Measurements: From Bench to Bedside.

Beat H. Walpoth, Guido Beldi, Andreas Bosshard, Otto M. Hess, Thierry Carrel.

Appendix: Exercise in Graft Patency Verification in Coronary Artery Surgery.

Susan Schmid, Giuseppe D'Ancona, Hratch L. Karamanoukian, Marco Ricci, Tomas A. Salerno, Jacob Bergsland.

Index