The use of prophylactic intra-aortic balloon pump in high-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting

• Ken Nakamura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Nakamura, Azumi Hamasaki

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ken.nakamura622@gmail.com

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nihonkai General Hospital, Sakata, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1293-7784

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• Azumi Hamasaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Nakamura, Azumi Hamasaki

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6284-1911

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• Tetsuro Uchida,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

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• Kimihiro Kobayashi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nihonkai General Hospital, Sakata, Japan

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• Ri Sho,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

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• Cholsu Kim ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nihonkai General Hospital, Sakata, Japan

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• Hideaki Uchino ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nihonkai General Hospital, Sakata, Japan

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• Takao Shimanuki ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nihonkai General Hospital, Sakata, Japan

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• Mitsuaki Sadahiro

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

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